NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Pain Medicine Physician in North Carolina

52 NPPES records list pain medicine physician with a practice address in North Carolina, 0.5 per 100,000 residents, the 7th highest rate of 51. Greensboro and Winston Salem have the most; each record links to the provider's NPI and the North Carolina license search. Page 2 of 2.

CMS NPPES registry, file of Aug 9, 2026; 2023 Census estimates · NUCC 208VP0000X · method

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

Greensboro has the most, 9

  1. Greensboro9
  2. Winston Salem8
  3. High Point7
  4. Charlotte5
  5. Burlington2

Pain Medicine Physician records in North Carolina

  1. Terri Wood-Cummings, M.DWinston Salem, NC 271061598880791
  2. David Zub, M.D.Leland, NC 284511649453036

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 208VP0000X: records by practice city and the list of records, file of Aug 9, 2026.

North Carolina ranks 7 of 51 per resident

  1. Arizona0.8
  2. Florida0.5
  3. New Jersey0.5
  4. North Carolina0.5
  5. Ohio0.5
  6. Oklahoma0.5
  7. 50 states and D.C.0.4

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 208VP0000X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.

88.5% of these records appear in a Medicare file, against 82.6% 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. North Carolina88.5%
  2. United States82.6%

Pain Medicine Physician records in North Carolina, measured

  • In a Medicare file46 of 52 · 88.5% here, 82.6% nationally
  • In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians file37 · 71.2% here, 66.8% nationally
  • Not updated in five years or more22 · 42.3% here, 46.8% nationally
  • Median graduation year2009 · the 37 records with a school on file

Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026 (primary taxonomy 208VP0000X); CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024 and Doctors and Clinicians, matched by NPI.

What the count covers

52 NPPES records list pain medicine physician (208VP0000X) as their primary taxonomy with a practice address in North Carolina: 0.5 per 100,000 residents against 0.4 nationally (50 states and D.C.). Greensboro has 9 of them (17%).

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. Georgia51
  2. Ohio56
  3. Arizona57
  4. Pennsylvania57

States with a similar rate per 100,000

  1. New Jersey0.5
  2. Oklahoma0.5
  3. Florida0.5
  4. Minnesota0.4

The largest states

  1. California140
  2. Florida117
  3. Texas115
  4. New York66
  5. Arizona57

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.