Emergency Medicine Physician
79,888 active US providers register Emergency Medicine Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.9% of every provider in the registry, and the 31st largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 207P00000X
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Emergency Medicine
- Active providers
- 79,888
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
An emergency physician focuses on the immediate decision making and action necessary to prevent death or any further disability both in the pre-hospital setting by directing emergency medical technicians and in the emergency department. The emergency physician provides immediate recognition, evaluation, care, stabilization and disposition of a generally diversified population of adult and pediatric patients in response to acute illness and injury.
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 | 8,603 | |
| Texas | 6,115 | |
| New York | 5,298 | |
| Florida | 4,935 | |
| Pennsylvania | 4,240 | |
| Illinois | 3,627 | |
| Michigan | 3,329 | |
| Ohio | 3,318 | |
| North Carolina | 2,315 | |
| Georgia | 2,019 | |
| New Jersey | 1,941 | |
| Virginia | 1,912 | |
| Massachusetts | 1,911 | |
| Arizona | 1,656 | |
| Missouri | 1,601 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
70,729 of these are people and 9,159 are organisations, so 11% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2009, and 9,324 registered in the last five years, 12% 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.
- CHICAGO, IL1,384
- NEW YORK, NY1,105
- PHILADELPHIA, PA1,039
- HOUSTON, TX930
- BROOKLYN, NY745
- LOS ANGELES, CA671
- DALLAS, TX611
- BOSTON, MA560
- BALTIMORE, MD533
- SAN DIEGO, CA530
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Emergency 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 10,448 | 13.1% |
| Family Medicine Physician | 2,340 | 2.9% |
| Nurse Practitioner | 1,849 | 2.3% |
| Physician Assistant | 1,814 | 2.3% |
| Internal Medicine Physician | 1,446 | 1.8% |
| Emergency Medical Services (Emergency Medicine) Physician | 1,302 | 1.6% |
| General Practice Physician | 853 | 1.1% |
| Pediatrics Physician | 460 | 0.6% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Emergency Medicine.
- Emergency Medical Services (Emergency Medicine) Physician3,707
- Pediatric Emergency Medicine (Emergency Medicine) Physician954
- Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine (Emergency Medicine) Physician460
- Sports Medicine (Emergency Medicine) Physician398
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.