Orthopaedic Hand Surgery Physician vs Orthopaedic Surgery Physician

Orthopaedic Surgery Physician has 8.6 times as many registry records as Orthopaedic Hand Surgery Physician: 24,923 against 2,884. 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 Hand Surgery Physician: 2,884 records in 52 states

California288
New York199
Florida183
Texas182
Illinois129

Orthopaedic Hand 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 Hand Surgery Physician	Orthopaedic Surgery Physician	Per 100,000 (first)	Per 100,000 (second)
California	288	2,276	0.7	5.8
Texas	182	1,514	0.6	5.0
Florida	183	1,470	0.8	6.5
New York	199	1,339	1.0	6.8
Pennsylvania	118	1,253	0.9	9.7
Illinois	129	995	1.0	7.9
North Carolina	91	977	0.8	9.0
Michigan	60	962	0.6	9.6
Ohio	95	921	0.8	7.8
Georgia	78	753	0.7	6.8
New Jersey	93	690	1.0	7.4
Massachusetts	75	692	1.1	9.9
Washington	88	656	1.1	8.4
Wisconsin	56	656	0.9	11.1
Minnesota	50	647	0.9	11.3
Virginia	90	586	1.0	6.8
Indiana	65	491	0.9	7.2
Missouri	39	514	0.6	8.3
Colorado	77	471	1.3	8.0
Arizona	66	462	0.9	6.2
Tennessee	60	467	0.8	6.6
Maryland	60	457	1.0	7.4
Kentucky	69	364	1.5	8.0
South Carolina	47	365	0.9	6.8
Connecticut	59	348	1.6	9.6
Alabama	30	340	0.6	6.7
Oregon	35	335	0.8	7.9
Louisiana	32	336	0.7	7.3
Oklahoma	27	302	0.7	7.4
Utah	28	266	0.8	7.8
Iowa	27	257	0.8	8.0
Kansas	26	226	0.9	7.7
Arkansas	19	205	0.6	6.7
Mississippi	13	197	0.4	6.7
Nebraska	23	177	1.2	8.9
Nevada	27	164	0.8	5.1
New Hampshire	17	174	1.2	12.4
Idaho	19	162	1.0	8.2
Maine	15	165	1.1	11.8
New Mexico	16	141	0.8	6.7
Rhode Island	15	138	1.4	12.6
South Dakota	20	113	2.2	12.3
West Virginia	7	126	0.4	7.1
Montana	16	105	1.4	9.3
Hawaii	10	107	0.7	7.5
Wyoming	5	91	0.9	15.6
Alaska	9	83	1.2	11.3
North Dakota	10	74	1.3	9.4
Delaware	4	76	0.4	7.4
District of Columbia	7	60	1.0	8.8
Vermont	4	52	0.6	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 Hand Surgery Physician providers are there vs Orthopaedic Surgery Physician?

There are 2,884 Orthopaedic Hand 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 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.