NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Surgery Physician vs Trauma Surgery Physician

Surgery Physician has 24.6 times as many registry records as Trauma Surgery Physician: 34,063 against 1,385. 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

  1. California3,118
  2. Texas2,192
  3. New York2,053
  4. Florida1,887
  5. Pennsylvania1,867

Surgery Physician nationwide →

Trauma Surgery Physician: 1,385 records in 51 states

  1. California146
  2. Texas124
  3. Florida103
  4. Pennsylvania92
  5. New York73

Trauma Surgery Physician nationwide →

By state, with records per 100,000 residents

StateSurgery PhysicianTrauma Surgery PhysicianPer 100,000 (first)Per 100,000 (second)
California3,1181468.00.4
Texas2,1921247.20.4
New York2,0537310.50.4
Florida1,8871038.30.5
Pennsylvania1,8679214.40.7
Illinois1,5205912.10.5
Michigan1,3761913.70.2
Ohio1,2496510.60.6
North Carolina1,1702910.80.3
Georgia991389.00.3
Massachusetts1,0032214.30.3
Virginia8651810.00.2
Washington7914410.10.6
Arizona7603710.20.5
New Jersey737507.90.5
Wisconsin7265412.30.9
Minnesota7422112.90.4
Missouri7143211.50.5
Maryland6723810.90.6
Tennessee631468.90.6
South Carolina647912.00.2
Colorado6084410.30.7
Indiana612168.90.2
Oregon5242112.40.5
Alabama445258.70.5
Kentucky459810.10.2
Louisiana432259.40.5
Iowa437413.60.1
Connecticut3601410.00.4
Kansas349511.90.2
Oklahoma34868.60.1
Arkansas28449.30.1
Utah25997.60.3
Mississippi25738.70.1
Nevada236127.40.4
New Mexico236411.20.2
Maine2291016.40.7
Nebraska231711.70.4
West Virginia205811.60.5
New Hampshire196614.00.4
Idaho17949.10.2
District of Columbia1581123.31.6
Rhode Island151313.80.3
Hawaii145410.10.3
North Dakota142318.10.4
Montana136312.00.3
South Dakota114112.40.1
Delaware109110.60.1
Alaska98013.40.0
Vermont79312.20.5
Wyoming73112.50.2

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 Trauma Surgery Physician?

There are 34,063 Surgery Physician and 1,385 Trauma 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.