Corneal and Contact Management Optometrist
1,806 active US providers register Corneal and Contact Management Optometrist as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.02% of every provider in the registry, and the 306th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 152WC0802X
- Grouping
- Eye and Vision Services Providers
- Classification
- Optometrist
- Specialization
- Corneal and Contact Management
- Active providers
- 1,806
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
The professional activities performed by an Optometrist related to the fitting of contact lenses to an eye, ongoing evaluation of the cornea's ability to sustain successful contact lens wear, and treatment of any external eye or corneal condition which can affect contact lens wear.
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 | 231 | |
| Texas | 196 | |
| Florida | 125 | |
| New York | 120 | |
| Pennsylvania | 83 | |
| New Jersey | 74 | |
| Ohio | 73 | |
| Illinois | 61 | |
| Colorado | 59 | |
| Georgia | 59 | |
| Washington | 53 | |
| Virginia | 47 | |
| Minnesota | 45 | |
| Massachusetts | 41 | |
| Missouri | 38 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
1,183 of these are people and 623 are organisations, so 34% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2007, and 78 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, NY37
- HOUSTON, TX27
- LOS ANGELES, CA19
- SAN DIEGO, CA15
- ORLANDO, FL13
- INDIANAPOLIS, IN13
- CHICAGO, IL13
- BLOOMINGTON, MN10
- BROOKLYN, NY10
- PLANO, TX10
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Corneal and Contact Management Optometrist 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Optometrist | 323 | 17.9% |
| Pediatric Optometrist | 77 | 4.3% |
| Occupational Vision Optometrist | 44 | 2.4% |
| Sports Vision Optometrist | 42 | 2.3% |
| Vision Therapy Optometrist | 41 | 2.3% |
| Low Vision Rehabilitation Optometrist | 37 | 2.0% |
| Eyewear Supplier | 13 | 0.7% |
| Ophthalmology Physician | 10 | 0.6% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Optometrist.
- Vision Therapy Optometrist644
- Low Vision Rehabilitation Optometrist386
- Pediatric Optometrist322
- Optometrist96,449
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.