Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgery Physician vs Orthopaedic Surgery Physician

Orthopaedic Surgery Physician has 30.1 times as many registry records as Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgery Physician: 24,923 against 828. 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

Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgery Physician: 828 records in 51 states

Texas76
California71
New York58
Florida45
Washington36

Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgery Physician nationwide →

Orthopaedic Surgery Physician: 24,923 records in 56 states

California2,276
Texas1,514
Florida1,470
New York1,339
Pennsylvania1,253

Orthopaedic Surgery Physician nationwide →

By state, with records per 100,000 residents

State	Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgery Physician	Orthopaedic Surgery Physician	Per 100,000 (first)	Per 100,000 (second)
California	71	2,276	0.2	5.8
Texas	76	1,514	0.2	5.0
Florida	45	1,470	0.2	6.5
New York	58	1,339	0.3	6.8
Pennsylvania	28	1,253	0.2	9.7
Illinois	30	995	0.2	7.9
North Carolina	17	977	0.2	9.0
Michigan	15	962	0.1	9.6
Ohio	34	921	0.3	7.8
Georgia	21	753	0.2	6.8
Massachusetts	12	692	0.2	9.9
New Jersey	14	690	0.2	7.4
Washington	36	656	0.5	8.4
Wisconsin	6	656	0.1	11.1
Minnesota	14	647	0.2	11.3
Virginia	26	586	0.3	6.8
Missouri	17	514	0.3	8.3
Indiana	19	491	0.3	7.2
Colorado	32	471	0.5	8.0
Tennessee	21	467	0.3	6.6
Maryland	30	457	0.5	7.4
Arizona	19	462	0.3	6.2
South Carolina	18	365	0.3	6.8
Kentucky	4	364	0.1	8.0
Connecticut	12	348	0.3	9.6
Alabama	15	340	0.3	6.7
Oregon	18	335	0.4	7.9
Louisiana	9	336	0.2	7.3
Oklahoma	6	302	0.1	7.4
Utah	7	266	0.2	7.8
Iowa	12	257	0.4	8.0
Kansas	12	226	0.4	7.7
Arkansas	6	205	0.2	6.7
Mississippi	5	197	0.2	6.7
Nebraska	5	177	0.3	8.9
Nevada	12	164	0.4	5.1
New Hampshire	2	174	0.1	12.4
Idaho	9	162	0.5	8.2
Maine	4	165	0.3	11.8
New Mexico	2	141	0.1	6.7
Rhode Island	3	138	0.3	12.6
West Virginia	1	126	0.1	7.1
South Dakota	3	113	0.3	12.3
Hawaii	3	107	0.2	7.5
Montana	4	105	0.4	9.3
Wyoming	1	91	0.2	15.6
Alaska	4	83	0.5	11.3
Delaware	2	76	0.2	7.4
North Dakota	0	74	0.0	9.4
District of Columbia	2	60	0.3	8.8
Vermont	2	52	0.3	8.0

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

Common questions

How many Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgery Physician providers are there vs Orthopaedic Surgery Physician?

There are 828 Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgery Physician and 24,923 Orthopaedic Surgery Physician records in the CMS NPPES registry, counted by primary taxonomy.

Which specialty is spread across more states?

Orthopaedic Surgery Physician has records in 56 states and territories, against 51.

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.