Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology Physician
18,783 active US providers register Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.2% of every provider in the registry, and the 84th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 207ZP0102X
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Pathology
- Specialization
- Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology
- Active providers
- 18,783
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
A pathologist deals with the causes and nature of disease and contributes to diagnosis, prognosis and treatment through knowledge gained by the laboratory application of the biologic, chemical and physical sciences. A pathologist uses information gathered from the microscopic examination of tissue specimens, cells and body fluids, and from clinical laboratory tests on body fluids and secretions for the diagnosis, exclusion and monitoring of disease.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| California | 1,857 | |
| Texas | 1,616 | |
| Florida | 1,349 | |
| New York | 1,084 | |
| Illinois | 885 | |
| Pennsylvania | 812 | |
| Ohio | 772 | |
| Michigan | 638 | |
| Massachusetts | 599 | |
| Tennessee | 500 | |
| North Carolina | 493 | |
| Georgia | 487 | |
| New Jersey | 433 | |
| Virginia | 424 | |
| Maryland | 412 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
16,295 of these are people and 2,488 are organisations, so 13% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2007, and 1,318 registered in the last five years, 7% 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.
- HOUSTON, TX422
- CHICAGO, IL319
- NEW YORK, NY308
- BOSTON, MA289
- LOS ANGELES, CA231
- PHILADELPHIA, PA229
- DALLAS, TX198
- BALTIMORE, MD181
- ROCHESTER, MN178
- SAINT LOUIS, MO177
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cytopathology Physician | 1,466 | 7.8% |
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 1,214 | 6.5% |
| Hematology (Pathology) Physician | 814 | 4.3% |
| Anatomic Pathology Physician | 558 | 3.0% |
| Dermatopathology (Pathology) Physician | 465 | 2.5% |
| Clinical Pathology/Laboratory Medicine Physician | 388 | 2.1% |
| Blood Banking & Transfusion Medicine Physician | 330 | 1.8% |
| Molecular Genetic Pathology (Pathology) Physician | 212 | 1.1% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Pathology.
- Anatomic Pathology Physician3,043
- Clinical Pathology/Laboratory Medicine Physician1,628
- Forensic Pathology Physician595
- Cytopathology Physician587
- Dermatopathology (Pathology) Physician563
- Clinical Pathology Physician518
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.