Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Physician vs Surgery Physician

Surgery Physician has 11.3 times as many registry records as Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Physician: 34,063 against 3,006. 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

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Physician: 3,006 records in 54 states

Texas392
California359
Florida253
New York203
Illinois135

Plastic and Reconstructive 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	Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Physician	Surgery Physician	Per 100,000 (first)	Per 100,000 (second)
California	359	3,118	0.9	8.0
Texas	392	2,192	1.3	7.2
New York	203	2,053	1.0	10.5
Florida	253	1,887	1.1	8.3
Pennsylvania	107	1,867	0.8	14.4
Illinois	135	1,520	1.1	12.1
Michigan	60	1,376	0.6	13.7
Ohio	72	1,249	0.6	10.6
North Carolina	55	1,170	0.5	10.8
Massachusetts	74	1,003	1.1	14.3
Georgia	80	991	0.7	9.0
Virginia	81	865	0.9	10.0
Washington	72	791	0.9	10.1
Arizona	66	760	0.9	10.2
New Jersey	85	737	0.9	7.9
Minnesota	36	742	0.6	12.9
Missouri	60	714	1.0	11.5
Wisconsin	46	726	0.8	12.3
Maryland	53	672	0.9	10.9
Tennessee	75	631	1.1	8.9
South Carolina	50	647	0.9	12.0
Colorado	59	608	1.0	10.3
Indiana	47	612	0.7	8.9
Oregon	23	524	0.5	12.4
Kentucky	47	459	1.0	10.1
Alabama	25	445	0.5	8.7
Louisiana	37	432	0.8	9.4
Iowa	23	437	0.7	13.6
Connecticut	42	360	1.2	10.0
Kansas	35	349	1.2	11.9
Oklahoma	26	348	0.6	8.6
Arkansas	9	284	0.3	9.3
Mississippi	26	257	0.9	8.7
Utah	20	259	0.6	7.6
Nevada	12	236	0.4	7.4
Nebraska	14	231	0.7	11.7
New Mexico	8	236	0.4	11.2
Maine	14	229	1.0	16.4
West Virginia	17	205	1.0	11.6
New Hampshire	7	196	0.5	14.0
Idaho	13	179	0.7	9.1
District of Columbia	15	158	2.2	23.3
Hawaii	10	145	0.7	10.1
Rhode Island	3	151	0.3	13.8
Montana	12	136	1.1	12.0
North Dakota	5	142	0.6	18.1
South Dakota	7	114	0.8	12.4
Delaware	8	109	0.8	10.6
Alaska	2	98	0.3	13.4
Vermont	4	79	0.6	12.2
Wyoming	2	73	0.3	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 Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Physician providers are there vs Surgery Physician?

There are 3,006 Plastic and Reconstructive 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 54.

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.