Interventional Pain Medicine Physician providers in the U.S.
2,634 NPPES records list interventional pain medicine physician as their primary taxonomy, about 0.8 per 100,000 residents; Florida and Georgia have the most per resident. 2,100 of them appear in the Medicare Part D prescriber file: a registry record is not proof of an active practice.
What taxonomy code 208VP0014X means
208VP0014X is the National Uniform Claim Committee code for Pain Medicine, Interventional Pain Medicine, in the grouping Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians. 2,634 NPPES records list it as their primary taxonomy (file of Aug 9, 2026).
Interventional Pain Medicine is the discipline of medicine devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of pain and related disorders principally with the application of interventional techniques in managing subacute, chronic, persistent, and intractable pain, independently or in conjunction with other modalities of treatment.
Source: NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set, definition as NUCC publishes it (nucc.org); counts from CMS NPPES.
Most per resident: the 8 highest
Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 208VP0014X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.
New York has the most, 39
Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 208VP0014X by practice city, file of Aug 9, 2026.
All 51 by state
| State | Records | Per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 39 | 0.8 |
| Alaska | 8 | 1.1 |
| Arizona | 68 | 0.9 |
| Arkansas | 32 | 1.0 |
| California | 219 | 0.6 |
| Colorado | 28 | 0.5 |
| Connecticut | 23 | 0.6 |
| Delaware | 3 | 0.3 |
| District of Columbia | 1 | 0.1 |
| Florida | 292 | 1.3 |
| Georgia | 142 | 1.3 |
| Hawaii | 7 | 0.5 |
| Idaho | 10 | 0.5 |
| Illinois | 121 | 1.0 |
| Indiana | 77 | 1.1 |
| Iowa | 12 | 0.4 |
| Kansas | 8 | 0.3 |
| Kentucky | 56 | 1.2 |
| Louisiana | 59 | 1.3 |
| Maine | 6 | 0.4 |
| Maryland | 64 | 1.0 |
| Massachusetts | 29 | 0.4 |
| Michigan | 94 | 0.9 |
| Minnesota | 27 | 0.5 |
| Mississippi | 24 | 0.8 |
| Missouri | 33 | 0.5 |
| State | Records | Per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Montana | 7 | 0.6 |
| Nebraska | 10 | 0.5 |
| Nevada | 34 | 1.1 |
| New Hampshire | 8 | 0.6 |
| New Jersey | 94 | 1.0 |
| New Mexico | 11 | 0.5 |
| New York | 144 | 0.7 |
| North Carolina | 50 | 0.5 |
| North Dakota | 5 | 0.6 |
| Ohio | 79 | 0.7 |
| Oklahoma | 32 | 0.8 |
| Oregon | 34 | 0.8 |
| Pennsylvania | 65 | 0.5 |
| Rhode Island | 4 | 0.4 |
| South Carolina | 40 | 0.7 |
| South Dakota | 3 | 0.3 |
| Tennessee | 41 | 0.6 |
| Texas | 301 | 1.0 |
| Utah | 34 | 1.0 |
| Vermont | 1 | 0.2 |
| Virginia | 57 | 0.7 |
| Washington | 30 | 0.4 |
| West Virginia | 12 | 0.7 |
| Wisconsin | 44 | 0.7 |
| Wyoming | 1 | 0.2 |
In federal data
- NUCC code208VP0014X · Pain Medicine
- Size rank179th of 688 specialties by records (0.04% of all)
- In its family1st of 2 Pain Medicine codes, 67.6% of the family
- Part D prescribers2,100 (79.7% of records)
- Part D claims2,306 a year per prescriber, on average (29th of 496)
- Industry payments1,966 physicians paid $7.6M in 2024, $4K each on average
- Concentration8 states hold half of all records
Source: CMS NPPES; Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF; CMS Open Payments 2024. Presence in these files is not a quality judgment.
A sample of interventional pain medicine physician records
- Derek Bradley, M.D.Jber, AK1306263728
- Steven Johnson, MDAnchorage, AK1710963681
- Lawrence Kropp, M.D.Anchorage, AK1134146806
- Luke Liu, M.D.Anchorage, AK1942413349
- Eric Severson, PA-CWasilla, AK1790776599
- John Grissom, M.D.Wasilla, AK1598789513
- Andrew Jaconette, M.D.Wasilla, AK1487778304
- Christopher Gay, M.D.Fairbanks, AK1881848240
- Michele Criner, RNLeeds, AL1811607609
- Michael Kendrick, MDBirmingham, AL1225098163
- James Gillespie, M.B.B.S.Birmingham, AL1376078808
- Audra Eason, M.D.Birmingham, AL1174788970
- Richard Thoma, MDBirmingham, AL1437371994
- Thomas Martin, MDHoover, AL1558551127
- Scott Rooney, MDHoover, AL1447788047
- Seth Garrett, MDBirmingham, AL1396290946
Registry order, not a ranking. Search by name to find one provider.
Common questions
Where does the large Interventional Pain Medicine Physician headcount concentrate?
2,634 Interventional Pain Medicine Physician NPIs span 54 states; Texas alone holds 301. Top metros include New York, NY; Houston, TX; Chicago, IL; Jacksonville, FL. Nationally this is 179th of 688 NUCC codes.
How large is Interventional Pain Medicine Physician's Open Payments footprint?
CMS Open Payments 2024 lists 1,966 Interventional Pain Medicine Physician physicians totaling $7.6M (63,167 payments; average $4K, 108th of 470). Presence in Open Payments is not a quality judgment.
How heavy is Interventional Pain Medicine Physician Part D prescribing at scale?
Among Interventional Pain Medicine Physician NPIs, 2,100 appear in the Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF (average 2,306 claims and $118K drug cost per prescriber; 29th of 496 specialties by average claims). Non-prescribing clinicians in the same NUCC code are still in NPPES.
Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), file of Aug 9, 2026 (NPPES files on CMS.gov); NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy (nucc.org); Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF; CMS Open Payments 2024. Counts are self-designated primary taxonomy, not board certification.
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.