Forensic Pathology Physician
595 active US providers register Forensic Pathology Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.01% of every provider in the registry, and the 460th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 207ZF0201X
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Pathology
- Specialization
- Forensic Pathology
- Active providers
- 595
- States covered
- 46 of 51
What the code means
A forensic pathologist is expert in investigating and evaluating cases of sudden, unexpected, suspicious and violent death as well as other specific classes of death defined by law. The forensic pathologist serves the public as coroner or medical examiner, or by performing medicolegal autopsies for such officials.
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 | 58 | |
| Florida | 54 | |
| New York | 44 | |
| Texas | 38 | |
| Michigan | 20 | |
| Maryland | 20 | |
| Georgia | 20 | |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | |
| Tennessee | 19 | |
| New Mexico | 17 | |
| Washington | 16 | |
| Massachusetts | 15 | |
| Missouri | 15 | |
| Illinois | 15 | |
| Ohio | 14 |
Showing the 15 largest of 46 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
581 of these are people and 14 are organisations, so 2% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2012, and 66 registered in the last five years, 11% 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.
- LOS ANGELES, CA17
- ALBUQUERQUE, NM16
- NEW YORK, NY16
- BOSTON, MA10
- DECATUR, GA9
- PHILADELPHIA, PA8
- MIAMI, FL8
- ROCKVILLE, MD7
- ROCHESTER, NY7
- PHOENIX, AZ7
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Forensic Pathology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology Physician | 100 | 16.8% |
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 49 | 8.2% |
| Anatomic Pathology Physician | 30 | 5.0% |
| Neuropathology Physician | 10 | 1.7% |
| Pediatric Pathology Physician | 8 | 1.3% |
| General Practice Physician | 5 | 0.8% |
| Clinical Pathology/Laboratory Medicine Physician | 4 | 0.7% |
| Cytopathology Physician | 3 | 0.5% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Pathology.
- Cytopathology Physician587
- Dermatopathology (Pathology) Physician563
- Clinical Pathology Physician518
- Hematology (Pathology) Physician515
- Blood Banking & Transfusion Medicine Physician438
- Clinical Pathology/Laboratory Medicine Physician1,628
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.