Psychiatry Physician vs Vascular Neurology Physician

Psychiatry Physician has 66.1 times as many registry records as Vascular Neurology Physician: 58,027 against 878. 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

Psychiatry Physician: 58,027 records in 56 states

California8,673
New York6,589
Texas3,318
Florida2,744
Massachusetts2,736

Psychiatry Physician nationwide →

Vascular Neurology Physician: 878 records in 50 states

New York96
Texas82
California74
Pennsylvania59
Ohio53

Vascular Neurology Physician nationwide →

By state, with records per 100,000 residents

State	Psychiatry Physician	Vascular Neurology Physician	Per 100,000 (first)	Per 100,000 (second)
California	8,673	74	22.3	0.2
New York	6,589	96	33.7	0.5
Texas	3,318	82	10.9	0.3
Florida	2,744	41	12.1	0.2
Massachusetts	2,736	23	39.1	0.3
Pennsylvania	2,662	59	20.5	0.5
Illinois	2,147	38	17.1	0.3
Michigan	1,729	38	17.2	0.4
North Carolina	1,725	12	15.9	0.1
Ohio	1,587	53	13.5	0.4
New Jersey	1,520	26	16.4	0.3
Maryland	1,451	14	23.5	0.2
Virginia	1,395	16	16.1	0.2
Georgia	1,291	18	11.7	0.2
Washington	1,195	15	15.3	0.2
Connecticut	1,174	22	32.5	0.6
Colorado	990	6	16.8	0.1
Minnesota	974	10	17.0	0.2
Missouri	965	17	15.6	0.3
Arizona	942	18	12.7	0.2
Wisconsin	929	7	15.7	0.1
South Carolina	891	11	16.6	0.2
Oregon	764	10	18.0	0.2
Tennessee	731	27	10.3	0.4
Indiana	672	6	9.8	0.1
Louisiana	583	18	12.7	0.4
Alabama	517	8	10.1	0.2
Kentucky	503	16	11.1	0.4
District of Columbia	474	8	69.8	1.2
Oklahoma	463	17	11.4	0.4
Kansas	410	7	13.9	0.2
Iowa	398	8	12.4	0.2
Rhode Island	383	4	34.9	0.4
Utah	373	10	10.9	0.3
Hawaii	331	3	23.1	0.2
Arkansas	329	3	10.7	0.1
Maine	326	5	23.4	0.4
Nevada	316	4	9.9	0.1
New Mexico	300	2	14.2	0.1
Mississippi	272	1	9.3	0.0
New Hampshire	263	4	18.8	0.3
Nebraska	260	1	13.1	0.1
West Virginia	238	1	13.4	0.1
Vermont	203	1	31.4	0.2
Idaho	164	4	8.3	0.2
Delaware	162	5	15.7	0.5
Montana	156	0	13.8	0.0
Alaska	122	1	16.6	0.1
South Dakota	112	4	12.2	0.4
North Dakota	108	1	13.8	0.1
Wyoming	46	0	7.9	0.0

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

Common questions

How many Psychiatry Physician providers are there vs Vascular Neurology Physician?

There are 58,027 Psychiatry Physician and 878 Vascular Neurology Physician records in the CMS NPPES registry, counted by primary taxonomy.

Which specialty is spread across more states?

Psychiatry 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.