Colon & Rectal Surgery Physician

NUCC 208C00000X · Colon & Rectal Surgery

1,642 CMS NPPES-registered providers across 50 states · 215th of 690 specialties by headcount.

1,642
Providers
CMS NPPES-registered
50
States
with ≥1 NPI
California
Top state
142 providers
$3K
Open Pay avg
144th of 551 specialties

Where this specialty sits in the corpus

Colon & Rectal Surgery Physician ranks 215th of 690 NUCC specialties by CMS NPPES headcount (0.02% of all registered NPIs), densest in California; per resident District of Columbia leads.

1,642
NPPES providers in specialty
215th
of 690 specialties
463
state-share HHI
71.8%
Part D prescriber share

District of Columbia is densest per capita (2.7× the national rate; Minnesota 2.3×); 100% of the Colon & Rectal Surgery category.

Taxonomy fingerprint

Colon & Rectal Surgery Physician (NUCC 208C00000X; 71.8% Part D prescribers (1,179 of 1,642); avg 210 Part D claims/prescriber (425th of 572); Open Payments avg $3K/physician (144th of 551; 1,002 paid, $3.3M total); state-share HHI 463; next-larger headcount neighbor Pediatric Gastroenterology Physician (+2); next-smaller Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician (-5)).

Next larger: Pediatric Gastroenterology Physician (1,644) Next smaller: Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician (1,637)

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
1California142
2New York139
3Texas132
4Florida123
5Ohio101
6Pennsylvania93
7New Jersey70
8Illinois67
9Minnesota64
10Georgia56
11Michigan54
12Indiana42
13Virginia38
14Arizona36
15Connecticut35

Top Cities for Colon & Rectal Surgery Physician

#CityProviders
1New YorkNew York49
2ClevelandOhio42
3ChicagoIllinois29
4RochesterMinnesota28
5HoustonTexas23
6OrlandoFlorida19
7DallasTexas18
8AtlantaGeorgia17
9ColumbusOhio17
10WestonFlorida16
11Los AngelesCalifornia15
12SeattleWashington15

Sample Colon & Rectal Surgery Physician NPIs

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

#Provider
1Abdullatif Nimr, M.D.Toledo, OH
2Eilynn Sipe, M.D.Sylvania, OH
3Yanek Chiu, M.D.San Francisco, CA
4Laurence Yee, M.D.San Francisco, CA
5Robert Noone, MDWynnewood, PA
6Michael Abel, M.D.San Francisco, CA
7Jeffrey Sternberg, M.D.San Francisco, CA
8Augusto Martinez, M.D.Dayton, OH
9Debra Vachon, M.D.Baltimore, MD
10Gayla Royer, MDBirmingham, AL
11Howard Berg, M.D.Owings Mills, MD
12Deepak Kumar, M.D.Dayton, OH
13Vincent Cifello, M.D.Glen Burnie, MD
14James Zalucki, M.D.Ellicott City, MD
15Ralph Silverman, MDSt Louis, MO
16Paul Williamson, MDOrlando, FL
17Joseph Gallagher, MDOrlando, FL
18Samuel Dejesus, MDOrlando, FL

Frequently Asked Questions

Where does the large Colon & Rectal Surgery Physician headcount concentrate?
1,642 Colon & Rectal Surgery Physician NPIs span 50 states; California alone holds 142. Top metros include New York, NY; Cleveland, OH; Chicago, IL; Rochester, MN. Nationally this is 215th of 690 NUCC codes.
How large is Colon & Rectal Surgery Physician's Open Payments footprint?
CMS Open Payments 2024 lists 1,002 Colon & Rectal Surgery Physician physicians totaling $3.3M (9,376 payments; average $3K, 144th of 551). Presence in Open Payments is not a quality judgment.
How heavy is Colon & Rectal Surgery Physician Part D prescribing at scale?
Among Colon & Rectal Surgery Physician NPIs, 1,179 appear in the Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF (average 210 claims and $31K drug cost per prescriber; 425th 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.