Community/Retail Pharmacy
64,272 active US providers register Community/Retail Pharmacy as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.7% of every provider in the registry, and the 40th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 3336C0003X
- Grouping
- Suppliers
- Classification
- Pharmacy
- Specialization
- Community/Retail Pharmacy
- Active providers
- 64,272
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
A pharmacy where pharmacists store, prepare, and dispense medicinal preparations and/or prescriptions for a local patient population in accordance with federal and state law; counsel patients and caregivers (sometimes independent of the dispensing process); administer vaccinations; and provide other professional services associated with pharmaceutical care such as health screenings, consultative services with other health care providers, collaborative practice, disease state management, and education classes.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| New York | 5,816 | |
| California | 5,749 | |
| Texas | 5,643 | |
| Florida | 4,820 | |
| Michigan | 2,942 | |
| Pennsylvania | 2,822 | |
| North Carolina | 2,137 | |
| Ohio | 2,027 | |
| New Jersey | 1,990 | |
| Georgia | 1,984 | |
| Illinois | 1,726 | |
| Tennessee | 1,337 | |
| Washington | 1,256 | |
| Virginia | 1,212 | |
| Alabama | 1,202 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
945 of these are people and 63,327 are organisations, so 99% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2007, and 8,305 registered in the last five years, 13% of the current population.
That is close to the pace of the registry as a whole.
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.
- BROOKLYN, NY1,130
- HOUSTON, TX874
- NEW YORK, NY643
- BRONX, NY628
- MIAMI, FL619
- PHILADELPHIA, PA485
- LOS ANGELES, CA373
- CHICAGO, IL327
- DETROIT, MI307
- TAMPA, FL272
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Community/Retail Pharmacy 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pharmacy | 27,780 | 43.2% |
| Durable Medical Equipment & Medical Supplies | 21,922 | 34.1% |
| Compounding Pharmacy | 3,879 | 6.0% |
| Long Term Care Pharmacy | 3,120 | 4.9% |
| Specialty Pharmacy | 2,121 | 3.3% |
| Clinic Pharmacy | 818 | 1.3% |
| Clinical Medical Laboratory | 475 | 0.7% |
| Mail Order Pharmacy | 438 | 0.7% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Pharmacy.
- Pharmacy30,276
- Long Term Care Pharmacy8,765
- Clinic Pharmacy1,688
- Home Infusion Therapy Pharmacy1,364
- Specialty Pharmacy1,364
- Compounding Pharmacy1,219
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.