Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Obstetrics & Gynecology) Physician

NUCC 207VH0002X · Obstetrics & Gynecology

90 CMS NPPES-registered providers across 29 states · 542nd of 690 specialties by headcount.

90
Providers
CMS NPPES-registered
29
States
with ≥1 NPI
California
Top state
17 providers
$426
Open Pay avg
383rd of 551 specialties

Where this specialty sits in the corpus

Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Obstetrics & Gynecology) Physician ranks 542nd of 690 NUCC specialties by CMS NPPES headcount (0% of all registered NPIs), densest in California; per resident Michigan leads.

90
NPPES providers in specialty
542nd
of 690 specialties
748
state-share HHI
41.1%
Part D prescriber share

Michigan is densest per capita (1.9× the national rate; New York 1.7×); 0.2% of the Obstetrics & Gynecology category.

Taxonomy fingerprint

Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Obstetrics & Gynecology) Physician (NUCC 207VH0002X; 41.1% Part D prescribers (37 of 90); avg 161 Part D claims/prescriber (452nd of 572); Open Payments avg $426/physician (383rd of 551; 29 paid, $12K total); state-share HHI 748; next-larger headcount neighbor Emergency Clinical Nurse Specialist (+1); next-smaller Vascular Specialist/Technologist Cardiovascular (-1)).

Next larger: Emergency Clinical Nurse Specialist (91) Next smaller: Vascular Specialist/Technologist Cardiovascular (89)

Which states have the most providers?

#StateProviders
1California17
2New York9
3Florida8
4Georgia5
5Illinois5
6Michigan5
7Texas5
8Massachusetts3

Sample Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Obstetrics & Gynecology) Physician NPIs

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

#Provider
1Randall Fox, MDBoynton Beach, FL
2Samuel Katz, M.D.Glenview, IL
3Donna Coletti, MDGreenwich, CT
4Sondra Dantzic, M.D.Florham Park, NJ
5Timothy Deeulis, M.D.Huntington, WV
6Nezm Nasser, MDPompono Beach, FL
7Vida Bartasius, CNMChicago Heights, IL
8Laurence Burd, M.D.Chicago, IL
9Deani Iversen, MDPortland, OR
10Janice Huckaby, M.D.Brentwood, TN
11Kriss Hadjistavrinos, M.D.Englewood, NJ
12Moses Awoniyi, M.D.Decatur, AL

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Obstetrics & Gynecology) Physician a thin NUCC code in NPPES?
Only 90 NPIs list Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Obstetrics & Gynecology) Physician as primary taxonomy across 29 states (peak California, 17). That is 542nd of 690 NUCC codes by headcount. Thin codes are still searchable by NPI; do not treat the low count as a quality signal.
Do the few Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Obstetrics & Gynecology) Physician NPIs in Open Payments look unusual?
CMS Open Payments 2024 lists 29 paid Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Obstetrics & Gynecology) Physician physicians totaling $12K (246 payments; average $426, 383rd of 551 by average). Presence is not a quality judgment; thin specialties often have sparse payment rows.
How much Part D prescribing does this specialty do?
Among Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Obstetrics & Gynecology) Physician NPIs, 37 appear in the Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF (average 161 claims and $26K drug cost per prescriber; 452nd 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.