Forensic Psychiatry Physician
554 active US providers register Forensic Psychiatry Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.01% of every provider in the registry, and the 472nd largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 2084F0202X
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Psychiatry & Neurology
- Specialization
- Forensic Psychiatry
- Active providers
- 554
- States covered
- 47 of 51
What the code means
Forensic Psychiatry is a subspecialty with psychiatric focus on interrelationships with civil, criminal and administrative law, evaluation and specialized treatment of individuals involved with the legal system, incarcerated in jails, prisons, and forensic psychiatry hospitals.
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 | 117 | |
| New York | 46 | |
| Florida | 29 | |
| Maryland | 22 | |
| Texas | 21 | |
| New Jersey | 20 | |
| Pennsylvania | 19 | |
| Michigan | 18 | |
| Virginia | 17 | |
| Massachusetts | 17 | |
| Illinois | 17 | |
| Missouri | 13 | |
| South Carolina | 13 | |
| Connecticut | 12 | |
| Oregon | 12 |
Showing the 15 largest of 47 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
511 of these are people and 43 are organisations, so 8% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2007, and 16 registered in the last five years, 3% 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.
- ATASCADERO, CA20
- SACRAMENTO, CA20
- NEW YORK, NY18
- COLUMBIA, SC10
- SAN FRANCISCO, CA10
- SAN JOSE, CA9
- CHICAGO, IL9
- LOS ANGELES, CA8
- WASHINGTON, DC8
- GAINESVILLE, FL7
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Forensic Psychiatry 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 Psychiatry & Neurology.
- Epilepsy Physician594
- Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry Physician513
- Neurocritical Care Physician614
- Psychosomatic Medicine Physician395
- Neuromuscular Medicine (Psychiatry & Neurology) Physician345
- Sleep Medicine (Psychiatry & Neurology) Physician788
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.