NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Gastroenterology Physician in Minnesota

457 NPPES records list gastroenterology physician with a practice address in Minnesota, 8 per 100,000 residents, the 8th highest rate of 51. Rochester and Saint Paul have the most; each record links to the provider's NPI and the Minnesota license search. Page 10 of 10.

CMS NPPES registry, file of Aug 9, 2026; 2023 Census estimates · NUCC 207RG0100X · method

Written with AI tools from the named public files; every figure is computed from those files (how it is made).

Rochester has the most, 192

  1. Rochester192
  2. Saint Paul55
  3. Minneapolis42
  4. St Louis Park23
  5. Coon Rapids17

Gastroenterology Physician records in Minnesota

  1. David Wiechmann, MDMinneapolis, MN 554041770544678
  2. Russell Wiesner, M.D.Rochester, MN 559051164401105
  3. Louis Wong Kee Song, M.D.Rochester, MN 559051861471765
  4. Tiffany Wu, MDRochester, MN 559051134583651
  5. Paul Yakshe, M.D.Edina, MN 554351770548547
  6. Donald Zogg, MDBloomington, MN 554371093737686
  7. Julio Zuniga Cisneros, MDRochester, MN 559051760365969

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 207RG0100X: records by practice city and the list of records, file of Aug 9, 2026.

Minnesota ranks 8 of 51 per resident

  1. Rhode Island8.8
  2. Maryland8.2
  3. Pennsylvania8.1
  4. Minnesota8.0
  5. New Jersey7.9
  6. New Hampshire7.8
  7. 50 states and D.C.6.2

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 207RG0100X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.

81.4% of these records appear in a Medicare file, against 84.4% nationally

A Medicare file here is Part D prescribing (2024), a MIPS score (2023), an Open Payments record (2024) or Medicare group billing (CMS Doctors and Clinicians). A record outside them may still see patients: these files cover Medicare only.

  1. Minnesota81.4%
  2. United States84.4%

Gastroenterology Physician records in Minnesota, measured

  • In a Medicare file372 of 457 · 81.4% here, 84.4% nationally
  • In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians file334 · 73.1% here, 73.7% nationally
  • Not updated in five years or more266 · 58.2% here, 55.6% nationally
  • Median graduation year2006 · the 334 records with a school on file

Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026 (primary taxonomy 207RG0100X); CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024 and Doctors and Clinicians, matched by NPI.

What the count covers

457 NPPES records list gastroenterology physician (207RG0100X) as their primary taxonomy with a practice address in Minnesota: 8 per 100,000 residents against 6.2 nationally (50 states and D.C.). Rochester has 192 of them (42%).

A record is a registration a provider made and keeps up to date: it shows neither that the provider is licensed nor that they still practice there. The state's own license search is the check.

States with a similar number

  1. Missouri414
  2. Maryland505
  3. Arizona403
  4. Georgia530

States with a similar rate per 100,000

  1. New Jersey7.9
  2. New Hampshire7.8
  3. Pennsylvania8.1
  4. Rhode Island8.8

The largest states

  1. California2,140
  2. New York1,797
  3. Florida1,513
  4. Texas1,478
  5. Pennsylvania1,049

Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), file of Aug 9, 2026 (NPPES files on CMS.gov); NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy; 2023 Census population estimates. A registry record is not a license.

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 Aug 9, 2026.