Pediatric Gastroenterology Physician vs Pediatrics Physician

Pediatrics Physician has 30.6 times as many registry records as Pediatric Gastroenterology Physician: 74,895 against 2,445. 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

Pediatric Gastroenterology Physician: 2,445 records in 51 states

California264
Texas190
New York182
Pennsylvania163
Florida145

Pediatric Gastroenterology Physician nationwide →

Pediatrics Physician: 74,895 records in 56 states

California9,272
New York5,795
Texas5,641
Florida3,996
Pennsylvania3,382

Pediatrics Physician nationwide →

By state, with records per 100,000 residents

State	Pediatric Gastroenterology Physician	Pediatrics Physician	Per 100,000 (first)	Per 100,000 (second)
California	264	9,272	0.7	23.8
New York	182	5,795	0.9	29.6
Texas	190	5,641	0.6	18.5
Florida	145	3,996	0.6	17.7
Pennsylvania	163	3,382	1.3	26.1
Illinois	76	3,176	0.6	25.3
Ohio	141	2,972	1.2	25.2
Massachusetts	135	2,628	1.9	37.5
North Carolina	62	2,356	0.6	21.7
Georgia	48	2,258	0.4	20.5
New Jersey	67	2,181	0.7	23.5
Michigan	57	2,180	0.6	21.7
Virginia	49	2,002	0.6	23.2
Maryland	34	1,842	0.6	29.8
Washington	40	1,753	0.5	22.4
Missouri	75	1,560	1.2	25.2
Arizona	47	1,309	0.6	17.6
Minnesota	34	1,288	0.6	22.4
Tennessee	51	1,255	0.7	17.6
Wisconsin	54	1,203	0.9	20.4
Colorado	48	1,155	0.8	19.7
Indiana	49	1,136	0.7	16.6
South Carolina	24	1,136	0.4	21.1
Connecticut	32	1,043	0.9	28.8
Louisiana	29	917	0.6	20.0
Kentucky	18	874	0.4	19.3
Oregon	23	861	0.5	20.3
Alabama	30	817	0.6	16.0
Oklahoma	22	707	0.5	17.4
Utah	27	670	0.8	19.6
District of Columbia	28	593	4.1	87.3
Arkansas	16	509	0.5	16.6
Iowa	22	502	0.7	15.7
New Mexico	8	453	0.4	21.4
Kansas	8	421	0.3	14.3
Mississippi	10	417	0.3	14.2
Hawaii	4	410	0.3	28.6
Nebraska	16	391	0.8	19.8
Nevada	11	380	0.3	11.9
Rhode Island	17	330	1.6	30.1
New Hampshire	8	330	0.6	23.5
Maine	12	311	0.9	22.3
Delaware	11	290	1.1	28.1
West Virginia	10	281	0.6	15.9
Idaho	6	223	0.3	11.4
Vermont	3	181	0.5	28.0
Alaska	4	167	0.5	22.8
Montana	3	153	0.3	13.5
South Dakota	4	146	0.4	15.9
North Dakota	3	112	0.4	14.3
Wyoming	0	80	0.0	13.7

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

Common questions

How many Pediatric Gastroenterology Physician providers are there vs Pediatrics Physician?

There are 2,445 Pediatric Gastroenterology Physician and 74,895 Pediatrics Physician records in the CMS NPPES registry, counted by primary taxonomy.

Which specialty is spread across more states?

Pediatrics 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.