Surgery Physician vs Surgical Oncology Physician

Surgery Physician has 17.2 times as many registry records as Surgical Oncology Physician: 34,063 against 1,982. 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 Oncology Physician: 1,982 records in 51 states

California250
New York209
Texas206
Florida138
Pennsylvania92

Surgical Oncology Physician nationwide →

By state, with records per 100,000 residents

State	Surgery Physician	Surgical Oncology Physician	Per 100,000 (first)	Per 100,000 (second)
California	3,118	250	8.0	0.6
Texas	2,192	206	7.2	0.7
New York	2,053	209	10.5	1.1
Florida	1,887	138	8.3	0.6
Pennsylvania	1,867	92	14.4	0.7
Illinois	1,520	71	12.1	0.6
Michigan	1,376	33	13.7	0.3
Ohio	1,249	84	10.6	0.7
North Carolina	1,170	46	10.8	0.4
Massachusetts	1,003	61	14.3	0.9
Georgia	991	42	9.0	0.4
Virginia	865	41	10.0	0.5
Washington	791	35	10.1	0.4
New Jersey	737	69	7.9	0.7
Arizona	760	33	10.2	0.4
Wisconsin	726	42	12.3	0.7
Minnesota	742	15	12.9	0.3
Missouri	714	29	11.5	0.5
Maryland	672	51	10.9	0.8
Tennessee	631	62	8.9	0.9
South Carolina	647	22	12.0	0.4
Colorado	608	27	10.3	0.5
Indiana	612	21	8.9	0.3
Oregon	524	14	12.4	0.3
Kentucky	459	33	10.1	0.7
Alabama	445	28	8.7	0.5
Louisiana	432	27	9.4	0.6
Iowa	437	16	13.6	0.5
Connecticut	360	38	10.0	1.1
Oklahoma	348	11	8.6	0.3
Kansas	349	9	11.9	0.3
Arkansas	284	14	9.3	0.5
Utah	259	6	7.6	0.2
Mississippi	257	4	8.7	0.1
Nevada	236	8	7.4	0.3
New Mexico	236	8	11.2	0.4
Nebraska	231	10	11.7	0.5
Maine	229	6	16.4	0.4
West Virginia	205	3	11.6	0.2
New Hampshire	196	2	14.0	0.1
Idaho	179	3	9.1	0.2
District of Columbia	158	16	23.3	2.4
Rhode Island	151	7	13.8	0.6
Hawaii	145	6	10.1	0.4
North Dakota	142	6	18.1	0.8
Montana	136	4	12.0	0.4
South Dakota	114	1	12.4	0.1
Delaware	109	5	10.6	0.5
Alaska	98	2	13.4	0.3
Vermont	79	7	12.2	1.1
Wyoming	73	0	12.5	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 Surgery Physician providers are there vs Surgical Oncology Physician?

There are 34,063 Surgery Physician and 1,982 Surgical Oncology 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.