Addiction Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician

NUCC 207RA0401X · Internal Medicine

571 CMS NPPES-registered providers across 46 states · 333rd of 690 specialties by headcount.

571
Providers
CMS NPPES-registered
46
States
with ≥1 NPI
California
Top state
67 providers
$2K
Open Pay avg
192nd of 551 specialties

Where this specialty sits in the corpus

Addiction Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician ranks 333rd of 690 NUCC specialties by CMS NPPES headcount (0.01% of all registered NPIs), densest in California; per resident District of Columbia leads.

571
NPPES providers in specialty
333rd
of 690 specialties
499
state-share HHI
69%
Part D prescriber share

District of Columbia is densest per capita (5.2× the national rate; Vermont 4.6×); 0.2% of the Internal Medicine category.

Taxonomy fingerprint

Addiction Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician (NUCC 207RA0401X; 69% Part D prescribers (394 of 571); avg 1,455 Part D claims/prescriber (79th of 572); Open Payments avg $2K/physician (192nd of 551; 180 paid, $370K total); state-share HHI 499; next-larger headcount neighbor Family Health Clinical Nurse Specialist (+3); next-smaller Dermatopathology (Pathology) Physician (-2)).

Next larger: Family Health Clinical Nurse Specialist (574) Next smaller: Dermatopathology (Pathology) Physician (569)

Population-adjusted state index

Each multiple is this specialty's providers-per-resident in a state divided by the national rate (Census Vintage population estimates). Raw headcount favors large states; this ranking surfaces denser markets.

Over-indexed vs national rate

Under-indexed vs national rate

Which states have the most providers?

#StateProviders
1California67
2New York55
3Florida42
4Ohio37
5Pennsylvania31
6Massachusetts29
7New Jersey25
8Illinois20
9Michigan17
10Virginia17
11Minnesota16
12Tennessee15
13Colorado14
14Maryland14
15Wisconsin14

Top Cities for Addiction Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician

#CityProviders
1New YorkNew York17
2San FranciscoCalifornia9
3BostonMassachusetts9
4ChicagoIllinois8
5ColumbusOhio8
6DenverColorado7
7PortlandOregon7
8PhiladelphiaPennsylvania7
9Los AngelesCalifornia6
10AuroraColorado6
11WashingtonDistrict of Columbia6
12TampaFlorida6

Sample Addiction Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician NPIs

A directory sample from this NUCC code (not a ranking). Names and locations are unique to this taxonomy.

#Provider
1Parag Patel, MDCincinnati, OH
2Wayne Lajewski, M.D.Eastampton Township, NJ
3Abib Conteh, M.D.Tampa, FL
4Jeffrey Craven, M.D.Cincinnati, OH
5Bruce Kerr, MDLa Crosse, WI
6Migdalia Molina, M.D.San Antonio, TX
7Robert Fierer, M.D.Northglenn, CO
8Dinesh Jain, M.D.Tinley Park, IL
9Richard Hindmarsh, M.D.Lebanon, OR
10David Levy, MDBrockton, MA
11Howard Cohen, MDBaltimore, MD
12Cynthia Brown, MDCleveland, OH
13Lisa Tomsak, DOPalm Springs, FL
14Linda Thomas-Hemak, M.D.Jermyn, PA
15Mahdi Doumet, MDPerrysburg, OH
16Corattur Natesan, MDCleveland, OH
17Jerrold Schwartz, MDJohnson City, NY
18Lawrence Greenberg, D.O.Troy, MI

Adjacent specialties in the NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy - same Internal Medicine category.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How should I read Addiction Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician's mid-pack national roster?
571 CMS-registered Addiction Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician providers sit across 46 states; California leads with 67. Leading metros: New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL. Rank 333rd of 690 NUCC specialties by headcount.
How does Addiction Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician show up in Open Payments mid-pack?
CMS Open Payments 2024 lists 180 Addiction Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician physicians receiving $370K across 3,359 payments (average $2K; 192nd of 551 specialties). Not a quality score.
How much Part D prescribing does this specialty do?
Among Addiction Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician NPIs, 394 appear in the Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF (average 1,455 claims and $172K drug cost per prescriber; 79th of 572 specialties by average claims). Non-prescribing clinicians in the same NUCC code are still in NPPES.
Data sources and methodology

Provider data from CMS NPPES (download.cms.gov/nppes). Specialty classification from NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy (nucc.org). Part D averages from the CMS Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF; industry payments from CMS Open Payments 2024. Counts reflect self-designated primary taxonomy at NPI enrollment. PlainDoctor does not rate or rank providers. Methodology · About

Every figure on PlainDoctor is rendered directly from the federal CMS NPPES registry, Medicare Part D, MIPS, and Open Payments records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-08-27.