NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Legal Medicine in Virginia

13 NPPES records list legal medicine with a practice address in Virginia, 0.2 per 100,000 residents, the 28th highest rate of 46. Norfolk and Big Stone Gap have the most; each record links to the provider's NPI and the Virginia 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).

Norfolk has the most, 2

  1. Norfolk2
  2. Big Stone Gap1
  3. Bristow1
  4. Burke1
  5. Charlottesville1

Legal Medicine records in Virginia

  1. Sanjay Amin, M.D.Norfolk, VA 235131912904525
  2. Lawrence Amos, LMTCharlottesville, VA 229111578637997
  3. Ljubica Azer, M.D.Dale City, VA 221931023034709
  4. Belinda Berame, M.D.Bristow, VA 201361841216900
  5. Kevin CarthyChesterfield, VA 238321710804885
  6. Kimberly Demirhan, RNBurke, VA 220151609730597
  7. Lawrence Fleenor, MDBig Stone Gap, VA 242191932142585
  8. June Henderson, M.D.Williamsburg, VA 231871336363050
  9. Buu Lien, M.D.Norfolk, VA 235131669479242
  10. Karen Love, M.D.Glen Allen, VA 230601285739250
  11. Leslie Raiford, NPOrange, VA 229601295731883
  12. Patricia Saltzer, NPLynchburg, VA 245011255313870
  13. Holly Smith, M.D.Rural Retreat, VA 243681407804420

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

Virginia ranks 28 of 46 per resident

  1. North Carolina0.2
  2. Vermont0.2
  3. Colorado0.2
  4. Virginia0.2
  5. South Carolina0.1
  6. Missouri0.1
  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.

15.4% 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. Virginia15.4%
  2. United States37.7%

Legal Medicine records in Virginia, measured

  • In a Medicare file2 of 13 · 15.4% here, 37.7% nationally
  • In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians file1 · 7.7% here, 19.2% nationally
  • Not updated in five years or more10 · 76.9% 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

13 NPPES records list legal medicine (173000000X) as their primary taxonomy with a practice address in Virginia: 0.2 per 100,000 residents against 0.2 nationally (50 states and D.C.). Norfolk has 2 of them (15%).

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. Alabama14
  2. Arizona14
  3. Georgia12
  4. Ohio12

States with a similar rate per 100,000

  1. North Carolina0.2
  2. Michigan0.2
  3. Tennessee0.2
  4. Texas0.1

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.