Pediatric Infectious Diseases Physician vs Pediatrics Physician

Pediatrics Physician has 49.1 times as many registry records as Pediatric Infectious Diseases Physician: 74,895 against 1,524. 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 Infectious Diseases Physician: 1,524 records in 50 states

California161
New York120
Texas106
Massachusetts86
Pennsylvania83

Pediatric Infectious Diseases 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 Infectious Diseases Physician	Pediatrics Physician	Per 100,000 (first)	Per 100,000 (second)
California	161	9,272	0.4	23.8
New York	120	5,795	0.6	29.6
Texas	106	5,641	0.3	18.5
Florida	59	3,996	0.3	17.7
Pennsylvania	83	3,382	0.6	26.1
Illinois	46	3,176	0.4	25.3
Ohio	82	2,972	0.7	25.2
Massachusetts	86	2,628	1.2	37.5
North Carolina	39	2,356	0.4	21.7
Georgia	42	2,258	0.4	20.5
New Jersey	38	2,181	0.4	23.5
Michigan	35	2,180	0.3	21.7
Virginia	33	2,002	0.4	23.2
Maryland	36	1,842	0.6	29.8
Washington	46	1,753	0.6	22.4
Missouri	55	1,560	0.9	25.2
Arizona	16	1,309	0.2	17.6
Minnesota	28	1,288	0.5	22.4
Tennessee	58	1,255	0.8	17.6
Wisconsin	22	1,203	0.4	20.4
Colorado	35	1,155	0.6	19.7
Indiana	24	1,136	0.3	16.6
South Carolina	15	1,136	0.3	21.1
Connecticut	24	1,043	0.7	28.8
Louisiana	20	917	0.4	20.0
Kentucky	14	874	0.3	19.3
Oregon	14	861	0.3	20.3
Alabama	19	817	0.4	16.0
Oklahoma	8	707	0.2	17.4
Utah	16	670	0.5	19.6
District of Columbia	35	593	5.2	87.3
Arkansas	13	509	0.4	16.6
Iowa	12	502	0.4	15.7
New Mexico	3	453	0.1	21.4
Kansas	2	421	0.1	14.3
Mississippi	5	417	0.2	14.2
Hawaii	8	410	0.6	28.6
Nebraska	7	391	0.4	19.8
Nevada	7	380	0.2	11.9
Rhode Island	7	330	0.6	30.1
New Hampshire	4	330	0.3	23.5
Maine	5	311	0.4	22.3
Delaware	9	290	0.9	28.1
West Virginia	6	281	0.3	15.9
Idaho	5	223	0.3	11.4
Vermont	3	181	0.5	28.0
Alaska	0	167	0.0	22.8
Montana	1	153	0.1	13.5
South Dakota	3	146	0.3	15.9
North Dakota	2	112	0.3	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 Infectious Diseases Physician providers are there vs Pediatrics Physician?

There are 1,524 Pediatric Infectious Diseases 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 50.

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.