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Taxonomy 207Q00000X
FAMILY MEDICINE208,696 ON THE REGISTER9

Family Medicine Physician

208,696 active US providers register Family Medicine Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 2.2% of every provider in the registry, and the 9th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.

Taxonomy code
207Q00000X
Grouping
Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
Classification
Family Medicine
Active providers
208,696
States covered
51 of 51

What the code means

Family Medicine is the medical specialty which is concerned with the total health care of the individual and the family. It is the specialty in breadth which integrates the biological, clinical, and behavioral sciences. The scope of family medicine is not limited by age, sex, organ system, or disease entity.

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.

StateProvidersShare
California21,588
Texas16,107
Florida14,696
Pennsylvania10,207
New York8,386
Michigan8,093
Illinois8,004
Ohio7,297
North Carolina7,108
Washington6,330
Georgia5,494
Virginia5,208
Colorado4,803
Indiana4,663
Arizona4,468

Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.

Who registers under this code

155,941 of these are people and 52,755 are organisations, so 25% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2007, and 26,854 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.

What else they list

Providers whose primary code is Family 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.

Nearby specialties

Other taxonomies NUCC files under Family Medicine.

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.