NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Legal Medicine in New York

112 NPPES records list legal medicine with a practice address in New York, 0.6 per 100,000 residents, the 3rd highest rate of 46. New York and Brooklyn have the most; each record links to the provider's NPI and the New York license search. Page 3 of 3.

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).

New York has the most, 20

  1. New York20
  2. Brooklyn19
  3. Bronx8
  4. Astoria3
  5. Buffalo3

Legal Medicine records in New York

  1. Gerald Stinziano, MDBuffalo, NY 142091871581454
  2. Joan Sullivan, MDIthaca, NY 148501346240223
  3. Sarika Sunku, M.D.Yonkers, NY 107101891701579
  4. Walter Szpur, M.D.Tarrytown, NY 105911821077702
  5. Ramon Tallaj, M.D.New York, NY 100341487753497
  6. Cole Taylor, PHYSICAL THERAPISTCicero, NY 130391457391054
  7. Okon Umana, MDBronx, NY 104581972670693
  8. Luis Vasquez, PACNew York, NY 100321760407084
  9. Dianne Vertes, M.D.Buffalo, NY 142151245359819
  10. William Wallens, M.D.Niagara Falls, NY 143051689674905
  11. Michael Weitzman, M.D.New York, NY 100161124230446
  12. Jack Yoffa, M.D.East Syracuse, NY 130571194838334

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

New York ranks 3 of 46 per resident

  1. Hawaii0.7
  2. Montana0.6
  3. New York0.6
  4. Maryland0.5
  5. Delaware0.4
  6. 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.

46.4% 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. New York46.4%
  2. United States37.7%

Legal Medicine records in New York, measured

  • In a Medicare file52 of 112 · 46.4% here, 37.7% nationally
  • In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians file30 · 26.8% here, 19.2% nationally
  • Not updated in five years or more91 · 81.3% here, 77.1% nationally
  • Median graduation year1987 · the 30 records with a school on file

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

112 NPPES records list legal medicine (173000000X) as their primary taxonomy with a practice address in New York: 0.6 per 100,000 residents against 0.2 nationally (50 states and D.C.). New York has 20 of them (18%).

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. California112
  2. Florida76
  3. Pennsylvania34
  4. Illinois30

States with a similar rate per 100,000

  1. Maryland0.5
  2. Hawaii0.7
  3. New Jersey0.3
  4. Alabama0.3

The largest states

  1. California112
  2. Florida76
  3. Pennsylvania34
  4. Illinois30
  5. Maryland30

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.