Dermatology Physician vs MOHS-Micrographic Surgery Physician

Dermatology Physician has 10.5 times as many registry records as MOHS-Micrographic Surgery Physician: 15,980 against 1,529. Each count is the NPPES records whose primary taxonomy is the specialty, so it measures how providers describe their main practice, not everyone trained in it.

CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026; 2023 Census population estimates · method

Dermatology Physician: 15,980 records in 53 states

California2,083
Florida1,213
New York1,211
Texas1,172
Pennsylvania681

Dermatology Physician nationwide →

MOHS-Micrographic Surgery Physician: 1,529 records in 52 states

California164
Florida161
Texas122
New York82
Pennsylvania60

MOHS-Micrographic Surgery Physician nationwide →

By state, with records per 100,000 residents

State	Dermatology Physician	MOHS-Micrographic Surgery Physician	Per 100,000 (first)	Per 100,000 (second)
California	2,083	164	5.3	0.4
Florida	1,213	161	5.4	0.7
Texas	1,172	122	3.8	0.4
New York	1,211	82	6.2	0.4
Pennsylvania	681	60	5.3	0.5
Illinois	647	43	5.2	0.3
Massachusetts	627	51	9.0	0.7
North Carolina	507	57	4.7	0.5
Ohio	507	40	4.3	0.3
Michigan	471	36	4.7	0.4
Virginia	422	39	4.9	0.5
New Jersey	421	31	4.5	0.3
Washington	384	46	4.9	0.6
Georgia	349	45	3.2	0.4
Arizona	350	39	4.7	0.5
Maryland	341	32	5.5	0.5
Minnesota	327	42	5.7	0.7
Colorado	305	40	5.2	0.7
Wisconsin	325	17	5.5	0.3
Missouri	278	29	4.5	0.5
Tennessee	226	44	3.2	0.6
Connecticut	253	11	7.0	0.3
Indiana	229	19	3.3	0.3
South Carolina	217	24	4.0	0.4
Oregon	209	23	4.9	0.5
Louisiana	196	16	4.3	0.3
Utah	179	18	5.2	0.5
Alabama	171	20	3.3	0.4
Kentucky	142	19	3.1	0.4
Oklahoma	125	12	3.1	0.3
Iowa	105	14	3.3	0.4
Kansas	101	16	3.4	0.5
New Hampshire	89	11	6.3	0.8
Nevada	87	10	2.7	0.3
Mississippi	89	4	3.0	0.1
Arkansas	79	10	2.6	0.3
Nebraska	74	7	3.7	0.4
Rhode Island	73	8	6.7	0.7
Hawaii	68	9	4.7	0.6
District of Columbia	74	3	10.9	0.4
Idaho	59	9	3.0	0.5
Maine	58	7	4.2	0.5
New Mexico	58	5	2.7	0.2
Montana	55	5	4.9	0.4
South Dakota	53	4	5.8	0.4
West Virginia	46	6	2.6	0.3
North Dakota	37	1	4.7	0.1
Delaware	27	6	2.6	0.6
Vermont	29	4	4.5	0.6
Alaska	22	3	3.0	0.4
Wyoming	17	1	2.9	0.2

Source: CMS NPPES (NPPES files on CMS.gov), primary NUCC taxonomy by practice state; 2023 population estimates (census.gov).

Common questions

How many Dermatology Physician providers are there vs MOHS-Micrographic Surgery Physician?

There are 15,980 Dermatology Physician and 1,529 MOHS-Micrographic Surgery Physician records in the CMS NPPES registry, counted by primary taxonomy.

Which specialty is spread across more states?

Dermatology Physician has records in 53 states and territories, against 52.

Where is the data from?

Provider counts are from the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES). Per-capita rates use 2023 Census population estimates.

Two specialties are not substitutes: scope of practice, training and the conditions treated differ. More comparisons →

Written with AI tools from the named public files; every figure is computed from those files (how it is made).

Figures on PlainDoctor are read from the federal files each page names (CMS NPPES, Medicare Part D, MIPS, Open Payments; the HHS-OIG exclusion list only as counts) and from Census population estimates, with the file date shown beside them. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of the NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026.