Taxonomy 207QH0002X

Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Family Medicine) Physician

1,735 active US providers register Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Family Medicine) Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.02% of every provider in the registry, and the 312th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.

Taxonomy code: 207QH0002X
Grouping: Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
Classification: Family Medicine
Specialization: Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Active providers: 1,735
States covered: 51 of 51

What the code means

A family medicine physician with special knowledge and skills to prevent and relieve the suffering experienced by patients with life-limiting illnesses. This specialist works with an interdisciplinary hospice or palliative care team to maximize quality of life while addressing physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs of both patient and family throughout the course of the disease, through the dying process, and beyond for the family. This specialist has expertise in the assessment of patients with advanced disease; the relief of distressing symptoms; the coordination of interdisciplinary patient and family-centered care in diverse venues; the use of specialized care systems including hospice; the management of the imminently dying patient; and legal and ethical decision making in end-of-life care.

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	162
Florida	140
Texas	129
Maryland	85
Pennsylvania	79
New York	74
Colorado	72
Ohio	71
North Carolina	63
Michigan	56
Georgia	52
Arizona	50
Illinois	44
Washington	41
Indiana	40

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

Who registers under this code

1,081 of these are people and 654 are organisations, so 38% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2014, and 387 registered in the last five years, 22% 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.

HOUSTON, TX34
WESTMINSTER, MD19
INDIANAPOLIS, IN16
DENVER, CO15
CHARLOTTE, NC14
CLEVELAND, OH13
SAN ANTONIO, TX13
PITTSBURGH, PA12
SAN DIEGO, CA12
NEW YORK, NY12

What else they list

Providers whose primary code is Hospice and Palliative Medicine (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.

Also listed	Providers	Share
Family Medicine Physician	599	34.5%
Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician	147	8.5%
Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program	115	6.6%
Family Nurse Practitioner	93	5.4%
Geriatric Medicine (Family Medicine) Physician	61	3.5%
Internal Medicine Physician	50	2.9%
Nurse Practitioner	29	1.7%
Emergency Medicine Physician	28	1.6%

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.