Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) Physician

NUCC 2081H0002X · Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

95 CMS NPPES-registered providers across 31 states · 538th of 690 specialties by headcount.

95
Providers
CMS NPPES-registered
31
States
with ≥1 NPI
California
Top state
16 providers
$584
Open Pay avg
341st of 551 specialties

Where this specialty sits in the corpus

Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) Physician ranks 538th of 690 NUCC specialties by CMS NPPES headcount (0% of all registered NPIs), densest in California; per resident Puerto Rico leads.

95
NPPES providers in specialty
538th
of 690 specialties
628
state-share HHI
48.4%
Part D prescriber share

Puerto Rico is densest per capita (5.6× the national rate; Washington 2.3×); 0.5% of the Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation category.

Taxonomy fingerprint

Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) Physician (NUCC 2081H0002X; 48.4% Part D prescribers (46 of 95); avg 3,127 Part D claims/prescriber (26th of 572); Open Payments avg $584/physician (341st of 551; 26 paid, $15K total); state-share HHI 628; next-larger headcount neighbor Clinical & Laboratory Immunology (Allergy & Immunology) Physician (+2); next-smaller Pulmonary Function Technologist Registered Respiratory Therapist (-1)).

Next larger: Clinical & Laboratory Immunology (Allergy & Immunology) Physician (97) Next smaller: Pulmonary Function Technologist Registered Respiratory Therapist (94)

Which states have the most providers?

#StateProviders
1California16
2New York8
3Illinois6
4Florida5
5Pennsylvania5
6Puerto Rico5
7Washington5
8Arizona4

Sample Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) Physician NPIs

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

#Provider
1Kathy Selvaggi, MDButler, PA
2Paul Ware, M.D.Capitola, CA
3Owrang Dastmalchi, D.O.Laguna Hills, CA
4Amy Case, MDBuffalo, NY
5Patrick O'Brien, MDRaleigh, NC
6Pamela Harris, MDKansas City, MO
7Kerry Tobias, D.O.Phoenix, AZ
8Ronald Woodard, CHIROPRACTORGrand Prairie, TX
9Perry Stein, MDBrooklyn, NY
10Jerry Old, M.D.Lenexa, KS
11Joseph Weems, M.D.Memphis, TN
12Pamela Marron, MDMethuen, MA

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) Physician a thin NUCC code in NPPES?
Only 95 NPIs list Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) Physician as primary taxonomy across 31 states (peak California, 16). That is 538th 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 (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) Physician NPIs in Open Payments look unusual?
CMS Open Payments 2024 lists 26 paid Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) Physician physicians totaling $15K (291 payments; average $584, 341st 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 (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) Physician NPIs, 46 appear in the Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF (average 3,127 claims and $203K drug cost per prescriber; 26th 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.