Institutional Pharmacy
971 active US providers register Institutional Pharmacy as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.01% of every provider in the registry, and the 391st largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 3336I0012X
- Grouping
- Suppliers
- Classification
- Pharmacy
- Specialization
- Institutional Pharmacy
- Active providers
- 971
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
A pharmacy in a hospital (inpatient) or institution used by pharmacists for the compounding and delivery of medicinal preparations to be administered to the patient by nursing or other authorized personnel. Institutional Pharmacies also counsel patients and caregivers; administer vaccinations; and provide other professional services associated with pharmaceutical care such as health screenings, consultative services with other health care providers, collaborative practice, disease state management, and education classes.
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 | 141 | |
| New York | 74 | |
| Pennsylvania | 50 | |
| North Carolina | 40 | |
| Michigan | 40 | |
| Indiana | 36 | |
| Texas | 36 | |
| Illinois | 33 | |
| Ohio | 27 | |
| Wisconsin | 27 | |
| Georgia | 26 | |
| Utah | 25 | |
| Minnesota | 25 | |
| Tennessee | 23 | |
| Florida | 21 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
75 of these are people and 896 are organisations, so 92% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2007, and 148 registered in the last five years, 15% 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.
- LOS ANGELES, CA12
- HOUSTON, TX10
- SAN DIEGO, CA8
- NEW YORK, NY7
- BROOKLYN, NY7
- SACRAMENTO, CA7
- BRONX, NY6
- MILWAUKEE, WI6
- PHILADELPHIA, PA6
- SALT LAKE CITY, UT6
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Institutional Pharmacy 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pharmacy | 211 | 21.7% |
| Long Term Care Pharmacy | 129 | 13.3% |
| Community/Retail Pharmacy | 88 | 9.1% |
| Compounding Pharmacy | 42 | 4.3% |
| Clinic Pharmacy | 27 | 2.8% |
| Specialty Pharmacy | 15 | 1.5% |
| Home Infusion Therapy Pharmacy | 12 | 1.2% |
| Durable Medical Equipment & Medical Supplies | 10 | 1.0% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Pharmacy.
- Compounding Pharmacy1,219
- Mail Order Pharmacy629
- Home Infusion Therapy Pharmacy1,364
- Specialty Pharmacy1,364
- Clinic Pharmacy1,688
- Long Term Care Pharmacy8,765
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.