Interventional Pain Medicine Physician
5,758 active US providers register Interventional Pain Medicine Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.06% of every provider in the registry, and the 182nd largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 208VP0014X
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Pain Medicine
- Specialization
- Interventional Pain Medicine
- Active providers
- 5,758
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
Interventional Pain Medicine is the discipline of medicine devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of pain and related disorders principally with the application of interventional techniques in managing subacute, chronic, persistent, and intractable pain, independently or in conjunction with other modalities of treatment.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Texas | 805 | |
| Florida | 702 | |
| California | 466 | |
| Georgia | 320 | |
| New Jersey | 275 | |
| New York | 272 | |
| Arizona | 229 | |
| Illinois | 218 | |
| Maryland | 201 | |
| Michigan | 168 | |
| Ohio | 156 | |
| Indiana | 136 | |
| Pennsylvania | 136 | |
| Louisiana | 123 | |
| Kentucky | 113 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
2,625 of these are people and 3,133 are organisations, so 54% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2010, and 857 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.
- HOUSTON, TX81
- SAN ANTONIO, TX71
- NEW YORK, NY68
- PHOENIX, AZ55
- CHICAGO, IL53
- JACKSONVILLE, FL43
- AUSTIN, TX41
- LAS VEGAS, NV41
- SCOTTSDALE, AZ40
- DALLAS, TX39
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Interventional Pain 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Anesthesiology Physician | 1,241 | 21.6% |
| Pain Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician | 1,201 | 20.9% |
| Pain Medicine Physician | 608 | 10.6% |
| Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Physician | 421 | 7.3% |
| Pain Medicine (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) Physician | 360 | 6.3% |
| Nurse Practitioner | 190 | 3.3% |
| Durable Medical Equipment & Medical Supplies | 153 | 2.7% |
| Physician Assistant | 126 | 2.2% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Pain 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.