Forensic Psychiatry Physician vs Psychiatry Physician

Psychiatry Physician has 114.7 times as many registry records as Forensic Psychiatry Physician: 58,027 against 506. 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

Forensic Psychiatry Physician: 506 records in 48 states

California109
New York44
Florida25
Maryland21
Texas18

Forensic Psychiatry Physician nationwide →

Psychiatry Physician: 58,027 records in 56 states

California8,673
New York6,589
Texas3,318
Florida2,744
Massachusetts2,736

Psychiatry Physician nationwide →

By state, with records per 100,000 residents

State	Forensic Psychiatry Physician	Psychiatry Physician	Per 100,000 (first)	Per 100,000 (second)
California	109	8,673	0.3	22.3
New York	44	6,589	0.2	33.7
Texas	18	3,318	0.1	10.9
Florida	25	2,744	0.1	12.1
Massachusetts	17	2,736	0.2	39.1
Pennsylvania	17	2,662	0.1	20.5
Illinois	15	2,147	0.1	17.1
Michigan	17	1,729	0.2	17.2
North Carolina	11	1,725	0.1	15.9
Ohio	12	1,587	0.1	13.5
New Jersey	16	1,520	0.2	16.4
Maryland	21	1,451	0.3	23.5
Virginia	13	1,395	0.2	16.1
Georgia	7	1,291	0.1	11.7
Washington	9	1,195	0.1	15.3
Connecticut	11	1,174	0.3	32.5
Colorado	11	990	0.2	16.8
Missouri	13	965	0.2	15.6
Minnesota	3	974	0.1	17.0
Arizona	6	942	0.1	12.7
Wisconsin	9	929	0.2	15.7
South Carolina	11	891	0.2	16.6
Oregon	12	764	0.3	18.0
Tennessee	3	731	0.0	10.3
Indiana	5	672	0.1	9.8
Louisiana	9	583	0.2	12.7
Alabama	0	517	0.0	10.1
Kentucky	3	503	0.1	11.1
District of Columbia	7	474	1.0	69.8
Oklahoma	3	463	0.1	11.4
Kansas	1	410	0.0	13.9
Iowa	1	398	0.0	12.4
Rhode Island	3	383	0.3	34.9
Utah	6	373	0.2	10.9
Hawaii	5	331	0.3	23.1
Arkansas	4	329	0.1	10.7
Maine	2	326	0.1	23.4
Nevada	6	316	0.2	9.9
New Mexico	1	300	0.0	14.2
Mississippi	2	272	0.1	9.3
New Hampshire	2	263	0.1	18.8
Nebraska	2	260	0.1	13.1
West Virginia	2	238	0.1	13.4
Vermont	1	203	0.2	31.4
Idaho	1	164	0.1	8.3
Delaware	2	162	0.2	15.7
Montana	1	156	0.1	13.8
Alaska	1	122	0.1	16.6
South Dakota	0	112	0.0	12.2
North Dakota	0	108	0.0	13.8
Wyoming	0	46	0.0	7.9

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

Common questions

How many Forensic Psychiatry Physician providers are there vs Psychiatry Physician?

There are 506 Forensic Psychiatry Physician and 58,027 Psychiatry Physician records in the CMS NPPES registry, counted by primary taxonomy.

Which specialty is spread across more states?

Psychiatry Physician has records in 56 states and territories, against 48.

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.