General Practice Physician

NUCC 208D00000X · General Practice

16,838 CMS NPPES-registered providers across 56 states · 64th of 690 specialties by headcount.

16,838
Providers
CMS NPPES-registered
56
States
with ≥1 NPI
Puerto Rico
Top state
3,970 providers
$1K
Open Pay avg
241st of 551 specialties

Where this specialty sits in the corpus

General Practice Physician ranks 64th of 690 NUCC specialties by CMS NPPES headcount (0.23% of all registered NPIs), densest in Puerto Rico; per resident Puerto Rico leads.

16,838
NPPES providers in specialty
64th
of 690 specialties
976
state-share HHI
51.1%
Part D prescriber share

Puerto Rico is densest per capita (24.9× the national rate; American Samoa 4.6×); 100% of the General Practice category.

Taxonomy fingerprint

General Practice Physician (NUCC 208D00000X; 51.1% Part D prescribers (8,605 of 16,838); avg 2,957 Part D claims/prescriber (29th of 572); Open Payments avg $1K/physician (241st of 551; 4,601 paid, $6.0M total); state-share HHI 976; next-larger headcount neighbor Gastroenterology Physician (+223); next-smaller Surgical Physician Assistant (-458)).

Next larger: Gastroenterology Physician (17,061) Next smaller: Surgical Physician Assistant (16,380)

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
1Puerto Rico3,970
2Florida2,227
3California1,869
4Texas1,133
5New York686
6Washington429
7Virginia392
8Maryland378
9Michigan372
10Pennsylvania347
11Colorado341
12Illinois316
13Georgia315
14North Carolina294
15Ohio284

Top Cities for General Practice Physician

#CityProviders
1San JuanPuerto Rico577
2MiamiFlorida283
3BayamonPuerto Rico254
4PoncePuerto Rico234
5San DiegoCalifornia208
6BethesdaMaryland186
7CaguasPuerto Rico183
8TacomaWashington177
9Los AngelesCalifornia173
10OrlandoFlorida156
11MayaguezPuerto Rico156
12CarolinaPuerto Rico155

Sample General Practice Physician NPIs

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

#Provider
1Stephen Kauffman, M.D.Alexandria, VA
2Melissa Kirby, M.D.Orlando, FL
3Martha Turner, M.D.Riverton, WY
4Peter Amminger, MDMemphis, TN
5Shelly Temperley, MDMonroe, MI
6Nikorn Arunakul, M.DMarianna, FL
7Sylvette De Leon, M.D.San Juan, PR
8Babak Ourian, M.D.Beverly Hills, CA
9Allen Russell, M.D.Livonia, MI
10William Tong, M.D.Watsonville, CA
11Timothy Wilken, M.D.Salinas, CA
12Harold Block, M.D.El Paso, TX
13Ines Munoz De Laborde, M.D.Salinas, CA
14Samuel Dismond, M.D.Oakland, CA
15Patricia Bowling, M.D.Orem, UT
16Scott Prysi, M.D.Monterey, CA
17Stanley Hsieh, M.D.Bowling Green, KY
18Mashallah Ezzati, M.DLake Forest, CA

Frequently Asked Questions

Where does the large General Practice Physician headcount concentrate?
16,838 General Practice Physician NPIs span 56 states; Puerto Rico alone holds 3,970. Top metros include San Juan, PR; Miami, FL; Bayamon, PR; Ponce, PR. Nationally this is 64th of 690 NUCC codes.
How large is General Practice Physician's Open Payments footprint?
CMS Open Payments 2024 lists 4,601 General Practice Physician physicians totaling $6.0M (48,227 payments; average $1K, 241st of 551). Presence in Open Payments is not a quality judgment.
How heavy is General Practice Physician Part D prescribing at scale?
Among General Practice Physician NPIs, 8,605 appear in the Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF (average 2,957 claims and $227K drug cost per prescriber; 29th 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.