Epilepsy Physician
594 active US providers register Epilepsy Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.01% of every provider in the registry, and the 461st largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 2084E0001X
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Psychiatry & Neurology
- Specialization
- Epilepsy
- Active providers
- 594
- States covered
- 42 of 51
What the code means
Epilepsy is a subspecialty of neurology focused on the diagnosis and treatment of patients with epilepsy, including new-onset, medically refractory epilepsy, psychogenic nonepileptic seizures, and epilepsy in special populations (the elderly, women, patients with co-morbidities). Epilepsy is a multidisciplinary field that provides comprehensive care of the patient.<br/>
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 | 55 | |
| Texas | 52 | |
| Michigan | 39 | |
| Massachusetts | 36 | |
| Ohio | 36 | |
| Florida | 31 | |
| Missouri | 31 | |
| Pennsylvania | 30 | |
| New York | 29 | |
| Colorado | 28 | |
| Illinois | 26 | |
| Tennessee | 22 | |
| Arizona | 20 | |
| Washington | 19 | |
| Minnesota | 19 |
Showing the 15 largest of 42 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
582 of these are people and 12 are organisations, so 2% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2012, and 47 registered in the last five years, 8% 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.
- BOSTON, MA31
- HOUSTON, TX26
- SAINT LOUIS, MO25
- ANN ARBOR, MI24
- CHICAGO, IL22
- AURORA, CO21
- COLUMBUS, OH19
- PHOENIX, AZ17
- ROCHESTER, MN16
- SEATTLE, WA15
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Epilepsy 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Neurology Physician | 504 | 84.8% |
| Clinical Neurophysiology Physician | 151 | 25.4% |
| Neurology with Special Qualifications in Child Neurology Physician | 136 | 22.9% |
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 52 | 8.8% |
| Pediatrics Physician | 43 | 7.2% |
| Internal Medicine Physician | 9 | 1.5% |
| Sleep Medicine (Psychiatry & Neurology) Physician | 3 | 0.5% |
| Specialist | 3 | 0.5% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Psychiatry & Neurology.
- Neurocritical Care Physician614
- Forensic Psychiatry Physician554
- Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry Physician513
- Sleep Medicine (Psychiatry & Neurology) Physician788
- Psychosomatic Medicine Physician395
- Addiction Medicine (Psychiatry & Neurology) Physician834
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.