Sleep Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician providers in the U.S.
1,164 NPPES records list sleep medicine (internal medicine) physician as their primary taxonomy, about 0.3 per 100,000 residents; Montana and Washington have the most per resident. 852 of them appear in the Medicare Part D prescriber file: a registry record is not proof of an active practice.
What taxonomy code 207RS0012X means
207RS0012X is the National Uniform Claim Committee code for Internal Medicine, Sleep Medicine, in the grouping Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians. 1,164 NPPES records list it as their primary taxonomy (file of Aug 9, 2026).
An Internist who practices Sleep Medicine is certified in the subspecialty of sleep medicine and specializes in the clinical assessment, physiologic testing, diagnosis, management and prevention of sleep and circadian rhythm disorders. Sleep specialists treat patients of any age and use multidisciplinary approaches. Disorders managed by sleep specialists include, but are not limited to, sleep related breathing disorders, insomnia, hypersomnias, circadian rhythm sleep disorders, parasomnias and sleep related movement disorders.
Source: NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set, definition as NUCC publishes it (nucc.org); counts from CMS NPPES.
Most per resident: the 8 highest
Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 207RS0012X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.
Philadelphia has the most, 30
Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 207RS0012X by practice city, file of Aug 9, 2026.
All 48 states and D.C. with records, by state
| State | Records | Per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 17 | 0.3 |
| Alaska | 1 | 0.1 |
| Arizona | 28 | 0.4 |
| Arkansas | 7 | 0.2 |
| California | 129 | 0.3 |
| Colorado | 21 | 0.4 |
| Connecticut | 18 | 0.5 |
| Delaware | 5 | 0.5 |
| District of Columbia | 5 | 0.7 |
| Florida | 50 | 0.2 |
| Georgia | 31 | 0.3 |
| Hawaii | 3 | 0.2 |
| Idaho | 9 | 0.5 |
| Illinois | 43 | 0.3 |
| Indiana | 26 | 0.4 |
| Iowa | 13 | 0.4 |
| Kansas | 6 | 0.2 |
| Kentucky | 22 | 0.5 |
| Louisiana | 11 | 0.2 |
| Maine | 2 | 0.1 |
| Maryland | 26 | 0.4 |
| Massachusetts | 34 | 0.5 |
| Michigan | 52 | 0.5 |
| Minnesota | 25 | 0.4 |
| State | Records | Per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 11 | 0.4 |
| Missouri | 17 | 0.3 |
| Montana | 11 | 1.0 |
| Nebraska | 5 | 0.3 |
| Nevada | 8 | 0.3 |
| New Hampshire | 9 | 0.6 |
| New Jersey | 27 | 0.3 |
| New Mexico | 12 | 0.6 |
| New York | 57 | 0.3 |
| North Carolina | 24 | 0.2 |
| Ohio | 53 | 0.4 |
| Oklahoma | 13 | 0.3 |
| Oregon | 21 | 0.5 |
| Pennsylvania | 58 | 0.4 |
| Rhode Island | 3 | 0.3 |
| South Carolina | 14 | 0.3 |
| Tennessee | 27 | 0.4 |
| Texas | 56 | 0.2 |
| Utah | 19 | 0.6 |
| Vermont | 3 | 0.5 |
| Virginia | 46 | 0.5 |
| Washington | 52 | 0.7 |
| West Virginia | 1 | 0.1 |
| Wisconsin | 27 | 0.5 |
In federal data
- NUCC code207RS0012X · Internal Medicine
- Size rank253rd of 688 specialties by records (0.02% of all)
- In its family18th of 31 Internal Medicine codes, 0.4% of the family
- Part D prescribers852 (73.2% of records)
- Part D claims585 a year per prescriber, on average (155th of 496)
- Industry payments664 physicians paid $2.5M in 2024, $4K each on average
- Concentration10 states hold half of all records
Source: CMS NPPES; Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF; CMS Open Payments 2024. Presence in these files is not a quality judgment.
A sample of sleep medicine (internal medicine) physician records
- Anne Morris, MDAnchorage, AK1336237965
- Michael Connolly, MDClanton, AL1669423554
- Gordon Warner, MDCullman, AL1194754788
- Melissa Jordan, MDBirmingham, AL1982058947
- Weddington Kelley, MDBirmingham, AL1851314744
- Stuart Padove, M.D.Birmingham, AL1164538310
- Robert Doekel, M.D.Birmingham, AL1023082450
- William Adams, M.D.Birmingham, AL1508830787
- Syed Nabi, M.D.Birmingham, AL1831205731
- Alan Thomas, M.D.Birmingham, AL1528066313
- Erin Ozgun, M.D.Birmingham, AL1285740456
- Richard Snow, MDTuscaloosa, AL1689752693
- Narayan Krishnamurthy, MDTuscaloosa, AL1922061712
- Eduardo Bazan Lavanda, MDAthens, AL1669791364
- Felix Morris, M.D.Florence, AL1689613739
- James Roy, M.D., PH.D.Huntsville, AL1902833213
Registry order, not a ranking. Search by name to find one provider.
Common questions
How should I read Sleep Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician's mid-pack national roster?
1,164 CMS-registered Sleep Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician providers sit across 49 states; California leads with 129. Leading metros: Philadelphia, PA; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; New York, NY. Rank 253rd of 688 NUCC specialties by headcount.
How does Sleep Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician show up in Open Payments mid-pack?
CMS Open Payments 2024 lists 664 Sleep Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician physicians receiving $2.5M across 12,654 payments (average $4K; 113th of 470 specialties). Not a quality score.
How much Part D prescribing does this specialty do?
Among Sleep Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician NPIs, 852 appear in the Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF (average 585 claims and $209K drug cost per prescriber; 155th of 496 specialties by average claims). Non-prescribing clinicians in the same NUCC code are still in NPPES.
Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), file of Aug 9, 2026 (NPPES files on CMS.gov); NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy (nucc.org); Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF; CMS Open Payments 2024. Counts are self-designated primary taxonomy, not board certification.
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.