Legal Medicine
1,871 active US providers register Legal Medicine as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.02% of every provider in the registry, and the 304th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 173000000X
- Grouping
- Other Service Providers
- Classification
- Legal Medicine
- Active providers
- 1,871
- States covered
- 49 of 51
What the code means
The specialty areas of medicine concerned with matters of, and relations with, substantive law and legal institutions; such as the conduct of medical examinations at crime scenes, performance of autopsies, giving of expert medical testimony in judicial proceedings, medical treatment of inmates of penal institutions, the practice of trauma medicine in law enforcement settings, and other clinical practice and medical science applications in the fields of law, law enforcement, and corrections.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| New York | 318 | |
| Florida | 229 | |
| California | 216 | |
| Texas | 104 | |
| Illinois | 80 | |
| New Jersey | 78 | |
| Michigan | 59 | |
| Georgia | 58 | |
| Pennsylvania | 55 | |
| North Carolina | 50 | |
| Tennessee | 48 | |
| Maryland | 47 | |
| Louisiana | 43 | |
| Virginia | 39 | |
| Alabama | 37 |
Showing the 15 largest of 49 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
763 of these are people and 1,108 are organisations, so 59% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2007, and 46 registered in the last five years, 2% 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.
- BROOKLYN, NY81
- NEW YORK, NY50
- MIAMI, FL43
- BRONX, NY27
- CHICAGO, IL23
- PITTSBURGH, PA15
- HOUSTON, TX15
- HIALEAH, FL14
- LOS ANGELES, CA12
- SAN FRANCISCO, CA11
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Legal Medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Specialist | 13 | 0.7% |
| Internal Medicine Physician | 10 | 0.5% |
| Family Medicine Physician | 7 | 0.4% |
| Emergency Medicine Physician | 4 | 0.2% |
| Pediatrics Physician | 4 | 0.2% |
| Nurse Practitioner | 4 | 0.2% |
| Legal Medicine (M.D./D.O.) Physician | 4 | 0.2% |
| Medical Physician Assistant | 3 | 0.2% |
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.