Aerospace Medicine Physician
572 active US providers register Aerospace Medicine Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.01% of every provider in the registry, and the 469th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 2083A0100X
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Preventive Medicine
- Specialization
- Aerospace Medicine
- Active providers
- 572
- States covered
- 46 of 51
What the code means
Aerospace medicine focuses on the clinical care, research, and operational support of the health, safety, and performance of crewmembers and passengers of air and space vehicles, together with the support personnel who assist operation of such vehicles. This population often works and lives in remote, isolated, extreme, or enclosed environments under conditions of physical and psychological stress. Practitioners strive for an optimal human-machine match in occupational settings rich with environmental hazards and engineering countermeasures.
Definition quoted verbatim from the NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set, version 25.1. Not paraphrased.
Where they are
Counted by practice location, not by mailing address or by licence state. A provider practising across a state line is counted where they practise.
| State | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Texas | 74 | |
| Florida | 55 | |
| California | 44 | |
| Ohio | 36 | |
| Virginia | 33 | |
| Alabama | 28 | |
| Colorado | 25 | |
| Washington | 21 | |
| Georgia | 20 | |
| North Carolina | 19 | |
| Nevada | 15 | |
| Maryland | 14 | |
| New Mexico | 12 | |
| Alaska | 12 | |
| Arizona | 11 |
Showing the 15 largest of 46 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
563 of these are people and 9 are organisations, so 2% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2006, and 43 registered in the last five years, 8% of the current population.
That is a slow-growing code, which usually means an established field replacing retirements rather than expanding.
Where the practices are
By practice-location city. City counts are noisier than state counts, because a large employer files one address for many providers.
- PENSACOLA, FL22
- HOUSTON, TX17
- FORT RUCKER, AL16
- SAN DIEGO, CA14
- ROBINS AFB, GA11
- WRIGHT PATTERSON AFB, OH11
- NELLIS AFB, NV11
- WASHINGTON, DC8
- WPAFB, OH8
- JBSA LACKLAND, TX7
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Aerospace Medicine Physician most often carry these secondary taxonomies as well. This is the closest thing the registry has to a map of which specialties overlap in practice, and it is not published anywhere else.
| Also listed | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Family Medicine Physician | 88 | 15.4% |
| Occupational Medicine Physician | 74 | 12.9% |
| General Practice Physician | 54 | 9.4% |
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 38 | 6.6% |
| Military Health Care Provider | 33 | 5.8% |
| Internal Medicine Physician | 31 | 5.4% |
| Emergency Medicine Physician | 30 | 5.2% |
| Preventive Medicine/Occupational Environmental Medicine Physician | 28 | 4.9% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Preventive Medicine.
- Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine (Preventive Medicine) Physician613
- Addiction Medicine (Preventive Medicine) Physician493
- Preventive Medicine/Occupational Environmental Medicine Physician1,518
- Public Health & General Preventive Medicine Physician2,414
- Occupational Medicine Physician3,237
Looking up a specific provider
These counts come from the monthly NPPES file. To check one provider, use their NPI: the lookup reads the live registry and shows whether the identifier is still active, which the monthly file cannot tell you about the last few weeks.
Counts from npidata_pfile_20050523-20260712.csv, built 2026-08-09. Primary taxonomy only, deactivated identifiers excluded.