Legal Medicine (M.D./D.O.) Physician

Compiled from official public sources by the editorial process. · Updated August 2026

NUCC 209800000X · Legal Medicine

54 CMS NPPES-registered providers across 26 states · 579th of 690 specialties by headcount.

Providers

CMS NPPES-registered

States

with ≥1 NPI

California

Top state

5 providers

$112

Open Pay avg

511th of 551 specialties

Where this specialty sits in the corpus

Legal Medicine (M.D./D.O.) Physician ranks 579th of 690 NUCC specialties by CMS NPPES headcount (0% of all registered NPIs), densest in California.

54
NPPES providers in specialty: 579th
of 690 specialties: 521
state-share HHI: 7.4%
Part D prescriber share

7 states hold half of this specialty's national roster; 4.9% of the Legal Medicine category.

Taxonomy fingerprint

Legal Medicine (M.D./D.O.) Physician (NUCC 209800000X; 7.4% Part D prescribers (4 of 54); avg 332 Part D claims/prescriber (356th of 572); Open Payments avg $112/physician (511th of 551; 3 paid, $335 total); state-share HHI 521; next-larger headcount neighbor Medical Geneticist (PhD) Specialist/Technologist (+2); next-smaller Histology Specialist/Technologist (-1)).

Next larger: Medical Geneticist (PhD) Specialist/Technologist (56) Next smaller: Histology Specialist/Technologist (53)

Which states have the most providers?

#	State	Providers	% of specialty
1	California	5	9.3%
2	Arizona	4	7.4%
3	New York	4	7.4%
4	Texas	4	7.4%
5	Virginia	4	7.4%
6	Florida	3	5.6%
7	Georgia	3	5.6%
8	Illinois	3	5.6%

Sample Legal Medicine (M.D./D.O.) Physician NPIs

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

#	Provider	State
1	David Joseph, M.D.Tucson, AZ	Arizona
2	Gerardo Klug, M.D.Waycross, GA	Georgia
3	Cheryl Klug, F.N.P. CWaycross, GA	Georgia
4	Annu Ramaswamy, M.D.Aurora, CO	Colorado
5	Muhammad Emran, MDHouston, TX	Texas
6	Rayme Romanik, M.D.Albuquerque, NM	New Mexico
7	Michael Green, M.D.Lake Oswego, OR	Oregon
8	Ira Halperin, D.O.Bloomington, IL	Illinois
9	Petra Illig, M.D.Anchorage, AK	Alaska
10	Aaron Degroot, DOPhoenix, AZ	Arizona
11	Joseph Zagorski, M.D.Miami, FL	Florida
12	Lee Glass, MDMercer Island, WA	Washington

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Frequently Asked Questions

Why is Legal Medicine (M.D./D.O.) Physician a thin NUCC code in NPPES?

Only 54 NPIs list Legal Medicine (M.D./D.O.) Physician as primary taxonomy across 26 states (peak California, 5). That is 579th 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 Legal Medicine (M.D./D.O.) Physician NPIs in Open Payments look unusual?

CMS Open Payments 2024 lists 3 paid Legal Medicine (M.D./D.O.) Physician physicians totaling $335 (7 payments; average $112, 511th 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 Legal Medicine (M.D./D.O.) Physician NPIs, 4 appear in the Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF (average 332 claims and $15K drug cost per prescriber; 356th 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.