Pediatric Surgery Physician vs Surgery Physician

Surgery Physician has 22.8 times as many registry records as Pediatric Surgery Physician: 34,063 against 1,493. 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 Surgery Physician: 1,493 records in 51 states

California142
Texas128
Florida89
New York88
Ohio84

Pediatric Surgery Physician nationwide →

Surgery Physician: 34,063 records in 56 states

California3,118
Texas2,192
New York2,053
Florida1,887
Pennsylvania1,867

Surgery Physician nationwide →

By state, with records per 100,000 residents

State	Pediatric Surgery Physician	Surgery Physician	Per 100,000 (first)	Per 100,000 (second)
California	142	3,118	0.4	8.0
Texas	128	2,192	0.4	7.2
New York	88	2,053	0.4	10.5
Florida	89	1,887	0.4	8.3
Pennsylvania	76	1,867	0.6	14.4
Illinois	70	1,520	0.6	12.1
Michigan	46	1,376	0.5	13.7
Ohio	84	1,249	0.7	10.6
North Carolina	21	1,170	0.2	10.8
Massachusetts	51	1,003	0.7	14.3
Georgia	34	991	0.3	9.0
Virginia	38	865	0.4	10.0
Washington	31	791	0.4	10.1
Arizona	36	760	0.5	10.2
New Jersey	31	737	0.3	7.9
Minnesota	21	742	0.4	12.9
Missouri	44	714	0.7	11.5
Wisconsin	29	726	0.5	12.3
Maryland	16	672	0.3	10.9
Tennessee	56	631	0.8	8.9
South Carolina	23	647	0.4	12.0
Colorado	26	608	0.4	10.3
Indiana	21	612	0.3	8.9
Oregon	21	524	0.5	12.4
Kentucky	18	459	0.4	10.1
Alabama	23	445	0.5	8.7
Louisiana	23	432	0.5	9.4
Iowa	13	437	0.4	13.6
Connecticut	16	360	0.4	10.0
Oklahoma	12	348	0.3	8.6
Kansas	3	349	0.1	11.9
Arkansas	7	284	0.2	9.3
Utah	19	259	0.6	7.6
Mississippi	2	257	0.1	8.7
Nevada	9	236	0.3	7.4
Maine	14	229	1.0	16.4
New Mexico	5	236	0.2	11.2
Nebraska	8	231	0.4	11.7
West Virginia	13	205	0.7	11.6
New Hampshire	8	196	0.6	14.0
Idaho	8	179	0.4	9.1
District of Columbia	18	158	2.7	23.3
Rhode Island	9	151	0.8	13.8
Hawaii	6	145	0.4	10.1
North Dakota	4	142	0.5	18.1
Montana	3	136	0.3	12.0
Delaware	9	109	0.9	10.6
South Dakota	4	114	0.4	12.4
Alaska	3	98	0.4	13.4
Vermont	3	79	0.5	12.2
Wyoming	0	73	0.0	12.5

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

Common questions

How many Pediatric Surgery Physician providers are there vs Surgery Physician?

There are 1,493 Pediatric Surgery Physician and 34,063 Surgery Physician records in the CMS NPPES registry, counted by primary taxonomy.

Which specialty is spread across more states?

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.