Colon & Rectal Surgery Physician
2,947 active US providers register Colon & Rectal Surgery Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.03% of every provider in the registry, and the 249th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 208C00000X
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Colon & Rectal Surgery
- Active providers
- 2,947
- States covered
- 50 of 51
What the code means
A colon and rectal surgeon is trained to diagnose and treat various diseases of the intestinal tract, colon, rectum, anal canal and perianal area by medical and surgical means. This specialist also deals with other organs and tissues (such as the liver, urinary and female reproductive system) involved with primary intestinal 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Texas | 264 | |
| California | 255 | |
| New York | 245 | |
| Florida | 216 | |
| Pennsylvania | 164 | |
| Ohio | 143 | |
| Michigan | 122 | |
| New Jersey | 119 | |
| Illinois | 104 | |
| Minnesota | 104 | |
| Georgia | 96 | |
| Arizona | 76 | |
| Indiana | 72 | |
| Virginia | 65 | |
| Connecticut | 61 |
Showing the 15 largest of 50 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
2,375 of these are people and 572 are organisations, so 19% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2007, and 110 registered in the last five years, 4% 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.
- NEW YORK, NY74
- HOUSTON, TX53
- CLEVELAND, OH46
- CHICAGO, IL45
- ROCHESTER, MN41
- DALLAS, TX39
- ATLANTA, GA27
- SAN ANTONIO, TX26
- ORLANDO, FL26
- PITTSBURGH, PA26
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Colon & Rectal Surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Surgery Physician | 1,127 | 38.2% |
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 201 | 6.8% |
| Specialist | 39 | 1.3% |
| Surgical Oncology Physician | 17 | 0.6% |
| Gastroenterology Physician | 13 | 0.4% |
| Surgical Critical Care Physician | 13 | 0.4% |
| Trauma Surgery Physician | 11 | 0.4% |
| General Practice Physician | 9 | 0.3% |
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.