Internal Medicine Physician vs Speech-Language Pathologist

Speech-Language Pathologist has 1.3 times as many registry records as Internal Medicine Physician: 199,814 against 149,962. 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

Internal Medicine Physician: 149,962 records in 56 states

California17,696
New York12,067
Florida10,151
Texas9,175
Pennsylvania7,300

Internal Medicine Physician nationwide →

Speech-Language Pathologist: 199,814 records in 55 states

New York24,851
Texas17,062
California13,141
Florida11,495
Illinois10,224

Speech-Language Pathologist nationwide →

By state, with records per 100,000 residents

State	Internal Medicine Physician	Speech-Language Pathologist	Per 100,000 (first)	Per 100,000 (second)
New York	12,067	24,851	61.7	127.0
California	17,696	13,141	45.4	33.7
Texas	9,175	17,062	30.1	55.9
Florida	10,151	11,495	44.9	50.8
Illinois	7,238	10,224	57.7	81.5
Pennsylvania	7,300	7,128	56.3	55.0
Ohio	5,277	7,643	44.8	64.8
North Carolina	4,056	7,172	37.4	66.2
Massachusetts	6,825	3,980	97.5	56.8
New Jersey	4,632	4,915	49.9	52.9
Michigan	5,735	3,734	57.1	37.2
Georgia	3,911	4,744	35.5	43.0
Virginia	3,599	4,939	41.6	57.1
Maryland	3,904	4,509	63.2	73.0
Missouri	2,604	5,054	42.0	81.6
Arizona	2,853	4,510	38.4	60.7
Washington	3,079	4,109	39.4	52.6
Tennessee	2,596	3,731	36.4	52.4
Colorado	2,046	4,253	34.8	72.4
Wisconsin	2,078	3,785	35.2	64.0
Minnesota	2,632	3,082	45.9	53.7
Indiana	2,109	2,993	30.7	43.6
Louisiana	1,749	3,307	38.2	72.3
South Carolina	1,881	3,161	35.0	58.8
Arkansas	768	3,677	25.0	119.9
Kentucky	1,526	2,904	33.7	64.2
Connecticut	2,623	1,639	72.5	45.3
Oregon	2,116	2,088	50.0	49.3
Oklahoma	1,115	2,454	27.5	60.5
Alabama	1,705	1,794	33.4	35.1
New Mexico	770	1,997	36.4	94.4
Nebraska	813	1,845	41.1	93.3
Kansas	1,010	1,492	34.3	50.7
Mississippi	972	1,500	33.1	51.0
West Virginia	754	1,387	42.6	78.4
Nevada	1,229	903	38.5	28.3
Utah	664	1,344	19.4	39.3
Iowa	871	1,080	27.2	33.7
New Hampshire	673	1,111	48.0	79.2
Maine	597	1,168	42.8	83.7
Rhode Island	1,033	643	94.3	58.7
District of Columbia	901	638	132.7	94.0
Hawaii	902	566	62.9	39.4
Idaho	453	958	23.1	48.8
North Dakota	245	1,009	31.3	128.7
Delaware	600	653	58.1	63.3
Montana	324	567	28.6	50.1
South Dakota	247	613	26.9	66.7
Vermont	326	321	50.4	49.6
Alaska	177	415	24.1	56.6
Wyoming	134	329	22.9	56.3

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

Common questions

How many Internal Medicine Physician providers are there vs Speech-Language Pathologist?

There are 149,962 Internal Medicine Physician and 199,814 Speech-Language Pathologist records in the CMS NPPES registry, counted by primary taxonomy.

Which specialty is spread across more states?

Internal Medicine Physician has records in 56 states and territories, against 55.

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.