Sports Physician Chiropractor providers in the U.S.
2,102 NPPES records list sports physician chiropractor as their primary taxonomy, about 0.6 per 100,000 residents; Oregon and Colorado have the most per resident. 2 of them appear in the Medicare Part D prescriber file: a registry record is not proof of an active practice.
What taxonomy code 111NS0005X means
111NS0005X is the National Uniform Claim Committee code for Chiropractor, Sports Physician, in the grouping Chiropractic Providers. 2,102 NPPES records list it as their primary taxonomy (file of Aug 9, 2026).
A sports chiropractor is uniquely trained to provide care and treatment of injuries or illness resulting from sports and physical fitness activities. Doctors of Chiropractic with the Diplomate American Chiropractic Board of Sports Physicians (DACBSP) or the Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician (CCSP), sport specialty certifications from the American Chiropractic Board of Sports Physicians, have advanced training in the assessment, management and rehabilitation of sports related injuries. Extremity care, rehabilitation and soft tissue procedures are common skills utilized by these doctors. The specialty training covers a broad spectrum from the pediatric athlete to professional and Olympic athletes, and everything in between, using a variety of techniques and modalities.
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 111NS0005X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.
Portland has the most, 26
Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 111NS0005X by practice city, file of Aug 9, 2026.
All 51 by state
| State | Records | Per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 16 | 0.3 |
| Alaska | 4 | 0.5 |
| Arizona | 50 | 0.7 |
| Arkansas | 1 | 0.0 |
| California | 404 | 1.0 |
| Colorado | 79 | 1.3 |
| Connecticut | 25 | 0.7 |
| Delaware | 3 | 0.3 |
| District of Columbia | 1 | 0.1 |
| Florida | 109 | 0.5 |
| Georgia | 78 | 0.7 |
| Hawaii | 8 | 0.6 |
| Idaho | 14 | 0.7 |
| Illinois | 89 | 0.7 |
| Indiana | 19 | 0.3 |
| Iowa | 30 | 0.9 |
| Kansas | 27 | 0.9 |
| Kentucky | 5 | 0.1 |
| Louisiana | 9 | 0.2 |
| Maine | 6 | 0.4 |
| Maryland | 21 | 0.3 |
| Massachusetts | 41 | 0.6 |
| Michigan | 25 | 0.2 |
| Minnesota | 45 | 0.8 |
| Mississippi | 1 | 0.0 |
| Missouri | 43 | 0.7 |
| State | Records | Per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Montana | 10 | 0.9 |
| Nebraska | 6 | 0.3 |
| Nevada | 12 | 0.4 |
| New Hampshire | 9 | 0.6 |
| New Jersey | 109 | 1.2 |
| New Mexico | 11 | 0.5 |
| New York | 128 | 0.7 |
| North Carolina | 41 | 0.4 |
| North Dakota | 6 | 0.8 |
| Ohio | 62 | 0.5 |
| Oklahoma | 15 | 0.4 |
| Oregon | 69 | 1.6 |
| Pennsylvania | 63 | 0.5 |
| Rhode Island | 6 | 0.5 |
| South Carolina | 20 | 0.4 |
| South Dakota | 11 | 1.2 |
| Tennessee | 22 | 0.3 |
| Texas | 154 | 0.5 |
| Utah | 34 | 1.0 |
| Vermont | 5 | 0.8 |
| Virginia | 50 | 0.6 |
| Washington | 59 | 0.8 |
| West Virginia | 2 | 0.1 |
| Wisconsin | 33 | 0.6 |
| Wyoming | 2 | 0.3 |
In federal data
- NUCC code111NS0005X · Chiropractor
- Size rank197th of 688 specialties by records (0.03% of all)
- In its family2nd of 12 Chiropractor codes, 2% of the family
- Part D prescribers2 (0.1% of records)
- Part D claims64 a year per prescriber, on average (388th of 496)
- Industry payments43 physicians paid $6K in 2024, $131 each on average
- Concentration7 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 sports physician chiropractor records
- James Martin, D.C., C.C.S.P.Wasilla, AK1396724951
- Attila Sipos, D.C.Wasilla, AK1528030640
- Kristofer Larson, DCWasilla, AK1417029976
- Birger Baastrup, D.C.Juneau, AK1326114984
- Khalil Awad, D.C.Birmingham, AL1093718777
- Tajuan Woody, DCBirmingham, AL1528280609
- Stephen Gremmels, D.C.Birmingham, AL1467547513
- John Kennedy, D.C.Hoover, AL1629113725
- Beau Beard, D.C., M.S.Birmingham, AL1154753739
- Sloan Beard, DC, MS, CCSPBirmingham, AL1841629524
- David Todd, D.C.Hoover, AL1013071679
- C Philpot-Bowen, DCJasper, AL1831132307
- Bernard Krenner, DCDecatur, AL1851485296
- Gerald Johnson, DCMadison, AL1396897252
- Jeffrey KerbyHuntsville, AL1538719968
- Kenneth Strickland, DCHuntsville, AL1104980101
Registry order, not a ranking. Search by name to find one provider.
Common questions
Where does the large Sports Physician Chiropractor headcount concentrate?
2,102 Sports Physician Chiropractor NPIs span 53 states; California alone holds 404. Top metros include Portland, OR; New York, NY; San Diego, CA; Houston, TX. Nationally this is 197th of 688 NUCC codes.
How large is Sports Physician Chiropractor's Open Payments footprint?
CMS Open Payments 2024 lists 43 Sports Physician Chiropractor physicians totaling $6K (90 payments; average $131, 392nd of 470). Presence in Open Payments is not a quality judgment.
How heavy is Sports Physician Chiropractor Part D prescribing at scale?
Among Sports Physician Chiropractor NPIs, 2 appear in the Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF (average 64 claims and $5K drug cost per prescriber; 388th 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.