Surgery Physician vs Surgical Critical Care Physician

Surgery Physician has 17.4 times as many registry records as Surgical Critical Care Physician: 34,063 against 1,953. 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

Surgery Physician: 34,063 records in 56 states

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

Surgery Physician nationwide →

Surgical Critical Care Physician: 1,953 records in 54 states

Florida162
California160
New York151
Pennsylvania150
Texas117

Surgical Critical Care Physician nationwide →

By state, with records per 100,000 residents

State	Surgery Physician	Surgical Critical Care Physician	Per 100,000 (first)	Per 100,000 (second)
California	3,118	160	8.0	0.4
Texas	2,192	117	7.2	0.4
New York	2,053	151	10.5	0.8
Florida	1,887	162	8.3	0.7
Pennsylvania	1,867	150	14.4	1.2
Illinois	1,520	73	12.1	0.6
Michigan	1,376	88	13.7	0.9
Ohio	1,249	97	10.6	0.8
North Carolina	1,170	36	10.8	0.3
Massachusetts	1,003	63	14.3	0.9
Georgia	991	54	9.0	0.5
Virginia	865	62	10.0	0.7
Washington	791	29	10.1	0.4
Arizona	760	51	10.2	0.7
New Jersey	737	51	7.9	0.5
Minnesota	742	30	12.9	0.5
Missouri	714	49	11.5	0.8
Wisconsin	726	14	12.3	0.2
Maryland	672	32	10.9	0.5
South Carolina	647	39	12.0	0.7
Tennessee	631	35	8.9	0.5
Indiana	612	34	8.9	0.5
Colorado	608	23	10.3	0.4
Oregon	524	17	12.4	0.4
Kentucky	459	35	10.1	0.8
Alabama	445	15	8.7	0.3
Iowa	437	15	13.6	0.5
Louisiana	432	19	9.4	0.4
Connecticut	360	43	10.0	1.2
Oklahoma	348	20	8.6	0.5
Kansas	349	9	11.9	0.3
Arkansas	284	13	9.3	0.4
Utah	259	14	7.6	0.4
Mississippi	257	7	8.7	0.2
Nevada	236	27	7.4	0.8
Nebraska	231	14	11.7	0.7
New Mexico	236	8	11.2	0.4
Maine	229	12	16.4	0.9
West Virginia	205	4	11.6	0.2
New Hampshire	196	7	14.0	0.5
Idaho	179	9	9.1	0.5
District of Columbia	158	11	23.3	1.6
North Dakota	142	13	18.1	1.7
Rhode Island	151	3	13.8	0.3
Hawaii	145	5	10.1	0.3
Montana	136	4	12.0	0.4
Delaware	109	12	10.6	1.2
South Dakota	114	3	12.4	0.3
Alaska	98	0	13.4	0.0
Vermont	79	1	12.2	0.2
Wyoming	73	1	12.5	0.2

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

Common questions

How many Surgery Physician providers are there vs Surgical Critical Care Physician?

There are 34,063 Surgery Physician and 1,953 Surgical Critical Care 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.