NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Interventional Pain Medicine Physician in Pennsylvania

65 NPPES records list interventional pain medicine physician with a practice address in Pennsylvania, 0.5 per 100,000 residents, the 36th highest rate of 51. Pittsburgh and Philadelphia have the most; each record links to the provider's NPI and the Pennsylvania license search. Page 2 of 2.

CMS NPPES registry, file of Aug 9, 2026; 2023 Census estimates · NUCC 208VP0014X · method

Pittsburgh has the most, 7

Interventional Pain Medicine Physician records in Pennsylvania

  1. Mina Salib, MDState College, PA 168011346734142
  2. Dasa SatyamEdwardsville, PA 187041225088347
  3. Jonathan Scholl, M.D.Indiana, PA 157011467907253
  4. Vipul Sharma, MDHamburg, PA 195261538504949
  5. Emily Smith-Straesser, M.D.Altoona, PA 166021063808434
  6. Ninad Sthalekar, M.D.Doylestown, PA 189011205888369
  7. Laszlo Szollas, M.DEast Stroudsburg, PA 183011790880003
  8. Samuel Valletta, M.D.Washington, PA 153011417306705
  9. Timothy Vollmer, D.O.Saint Marys, PA 158571851644637
  10. Alyssa Welles, PA-CSayre, PA 188401871840702
  11. Joseph Williams, M.D.Danville, PA 178221841233087
  12. Kelly Williams, D.O.Scranton, PA 185081093940546
  13. Kenneth Zahl, M.D.Bethlehem, PA 180181417199217
  14. Jie Zhu, MDReading, PA 196051457362386
  15. Keith Zora, D.O.State College, PA 168011235207051

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 208VP0014X: records by practice city and the list of records, file of Aug 9, 2026.

Pennsylvania ranks 36 of 51 per resident

  1. New Mexico0.5
  2. Idaho0.5
  3. Nebraska0.5
  4. Pennsylvania0.5
  5. Hawaii0.5
  6. Colorado0.5
  7. 50 states and D.C.0.8

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 208VP0014X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.

87.7% of these records appear in a Medicare file, against 88.2% 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. Pennsylvania87.7%
  2. United States88.2%

Interventional Pain Medicine Physician records in Pennsylvania, measured

  • In a Medicare file57 of 65 · 87.7% here, 88.2% nationally
  • In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians file48 · 73.8% here, 76.6% nationally
  • Not updated in five years or more28 · 43.1% here, 43.4% nationally
  • Median graduation year2003 · the 48 records with a school on file

Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026 (primary taxonomy 208VP0014X); CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024 and Doctors and Clinicians, matched by NPI.

What the count covers

65 NPPES records list interventional pain medicine physician (208VP0014X) as their primary taxonomy with a practice address in Pennsylvania: 0.5 per 100,000 residents against 0.8 nationally (50 states and D.C.). Pittsburgh has 7 of them (11%).

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. Maryland64
  2. Arizona68
  3. Louisiana59
  4. Virginia57

States with a similar rate per 100,000

  1. Nebraska0.5
  2. Idaho0.5
  3. New Mexico0.5
  4. Colorado0.5

The largest states

  1. Texas301
  2. Florida292
  3. California219
  4. New York144
  5. Georgia142

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.