Hospitalist Physician
30,785 active US providers register Hospitalist Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.3% of every provider in the registry, and the 62nd largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 208M00000X
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Hospitalist
- Active providers
- 30,785
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
Hospitalists are physicians whose primary professional focus is the general medical care of hospitalized patients. Their activities include patient care, teaching, research, and leadership related to Hospital Medicine. The term 'hospitalist' refers to physicians whose practice emphasizes providing care for hospitalized patients.
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 | 3,376 | |
| New York | 2,176 | |
| Florida | 2,109 | |
| Texas | 1,860 | |
| Illinois | 1,574 | |
| Pennsylvania | 1,525 | |
| North Carolina | 1,116 | |
| Ohio | 1,067 | |
| Georgia | 1,058 | |
| Missouri | 994 | |
| Wisconsin | 897 | |
| Colorado | 892 | |
| Arizona | 868 | |
| Washington | 832 | |
| New Jersey | 704 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
27,620 of these are people and 3,165 are organisations, so 10% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2013, and 3,819 registered in the last five years, 12% 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.
- NEW YORK, NY599
- SAINT LOUIS, MO435
- CHICAGO, IL431
- SEATTLE, WA408
- HOUSTON, TX393
- COLUMBUS, OH325
- ATLANTA, GA315
- PHOENIX, AZ283
- SAN ANTONIO, TX277
- AURORA, CO272
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Hospitalist 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Internal Medicine Physician | 19,471 | 63.2% |
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 4,071 | 13.2% |
| Family Medicine Physician | 2,796 | 9.1% |
| Pediatrics Physician | 1,867 | 6.1% |
| Nurse Practitioner | 349 | 1.1% |
| Physician Assistant | 345 | 1.1% |
| Emergency Medicine Physician | 283 | 0.9% |
| Geriatric Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician | 178 | 0.6% |
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.