NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Surgery Physician in West Virginia

205 NPPES records list surgery physician with a practice address in West Virginia, 12 per 100,000 residents, the 22nd highest rate of 51. Charleston and Huntington have the most; each record links to the provider's NPI and the West Virginia license search. Page 5 of 5.

CMS NPPES registry, file of Aug 9, 2026; 2023 Census estimates · NUCC 208600000X · method

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

Charleston has the most, 32

  1. Charleston32
  2. Huntington28
  3. Morgantown25
  4. Beckley20
  5. Martinsburg9

Surgery Physician records in West Virginia

  1. Brian Whyte, M.D.,Beckley, WV 258011407965668
  2. Seth Williams, MDSouth Charleston, WV 253091225583347
  3. Stephen Wilson, MDHuntington, WV 257011932172749
  4. Todd Witsberger, M.D.Charleston, WV 253011245326008
  5. Nan Zhang, MDMartinsburg, WV 254051508027517

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 208600000X: records by practice city and the list of records, file of Aug 9, 2026.

West Virginia ranks 22 of 51 per resident

  1. Montana12
  2. Kansas12
  3. Nebraska12
  4. West Virginia12
  5. Missouri12
  6. New Mexico11
  7. 50 states and D.C.10

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 208600000X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.

76.6% of these records appear in a Medicare file, against 73.7% 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. West Virginia76.6%
  2. United States73.7%

Surgery Physician records in West Virginia, measured

  • In a Medicare file157 of 205 · 76.6% here, 73.7% nationally
  • In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians file134 · 65.4% here, 58.0% nationally
  • Not updated in five years or more102 · 49.8% here, 54.4% nationally
  • Median graduation year2001 · the 134 records with a school on file

Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026 (primary taxonomy 208600000X); CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024 and Doctors and Clinicians, matched by NPI.

What the count covers

205 NPPES records list surgery physician (208600000X) as their primary taxonomy with a practice address in West Virginia: 12 per 100,000 residents against 10 nationally (50 states and D.C.). Charleston has 32 of them (16%).

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. New Hampshire196
  2. Maine229
  3. Puerto Rico230
  4. Idaho179

States with a similar rate per 100,000

  1. Missouri11.5
  2. Nebraska11.7
  3. Kansas11.9
  4. New Mexico11.2

The largest states

  1. California3,118
  2. Texas2,192
  3. New York2,053
  4. Florida1,887
  5. Pennsylvania1,867

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.