NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Legal Medicine in Alabama

14 NPPES records list legal medicine with a practice address in Alabama, 0.3 per 100,000 residents, the 11th highest rate of 46. Huntsville and Albertville have the most; each record links to the provider's NPI and the Alabama license search.

CMS NPPES registry, file of Aug 9, 2026; 2023 Census estimates · NUCC 173000000X · method

Written with AI tools from the named public files; every figure is computed from those files (how it is made).

Huntsville has the most, 3

  1. Huntsville3
  2. Albertville2
  3. Montgomery2
  4. Birmingham1
  5. Dothan1

Legal Medicine records in Alabama

  1. James Austin, DOAlbertville, AL 359501932190188
  2. Karen Fancher, MDAlbertville, AL 359501760473904
  3. Prem Gulati, M.D.Huntsville, AL 358161477547149
  4. David Kouri, M.D.Montgomery, AL 361061144248618
  5. Gary Newsom, M.D.Tuscaloosa, AL 354011992723019
  6. Kenneth Pitts, M.D.Huntsville, AL 358011851391494
  7. James Powell, M.D.Birmingham, AL 352131780632695
  8. Debbie Redmond-Hyder, D.O.Huntsville, AL 358061366442873
  9. Maria Sales, M.D.Gadsden, AL 359011114906229
  10. Dae Song, M.D.Selma, AL 367011316902802
  11. Frankie Whittington, M.D.Montgomery, AL 361061417974932
  12. Ted Williams, M.D.Dothan, AL 363051346247137
  13. Stephen Winston, MDFairhope, AL 365321376524017
  14. Ostap Woloschuk, MDRussellville, AL 356531275641425

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 173000000X: records by practice city and the list of records, file of Aug 9, 2026.

Alabama ranks 11 of 46 per resident

  1. Mississippi0.3
  2. California0.3
  3. New Mexico0.3
  4. Alabama0.3
  5. Pennsylvania0.3
  6. Washington0.2
  7. 50 states and D.C.0.2

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 173000000X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.

57.1% of these records appear in a Medicare file, against 37.7% 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. Alabama57.1%
  2. United States37.7%

Legal Medicine records in Alabama, measured

  • In a Medicare file8 of 14 · 57.1% here, 37.7% nationally
  • In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians file3 · 21.4% here, 19.2% nationally
  • Not updated in five years or more11 · 78.6% here, 77.1% nationally

Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026 (primary taxonomy 173000000X); CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024 and Doctors and Clinicians, matched by NPI.

What the count covers

14 NPPES records list legal medicine (173000000X) as their primary taxonomy with a practice address in Alabama: 0.3 per 100,000 residents against 0.2 nationally (50 states and D.C.). Huntsville has 3 of them (21%).

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. Arizona14
  2. Tennessee14
  3. Virginia13
  4. Georgia12

States with a similar rate per 100,000

  1. Pennsylvania0.3
  2. California0.3
  3. Washington0.2
  4. Illinois0.2

The largest states

  1. California112
  2. New York112
  3. Florida76
  4. Pennsylvania34
  5. Illinois30

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.