Mail Order Pharmacy
629 active US providers register Mail Order Pharmacy as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.01% of every provider in the registry, and the 449th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 3336M0002X
- Grouping
- Suppliers
- Classification
- Pharmacy
- Specialization
- Mail Order Pharmacy
- Active providers
- 629
- States covered
- 48 of 51
What the code means
A pharmacy where pharmacists compound or dispense prescriptions or other medications in accordance with federal and state law, using common carriers to deliver the medications to patient or their caregivers. Mail order pharmacies counsel patients and caregivers (sometimes independent of the dispensing process) through telephone or email contact and provide other professional services associated with pharmaceutical care appropriate to the setting. Mail order pharmacies are licensed as a Mail Order Pharmacy in the state where they are located and may also be licensed or registered as nonresident pharmacies in other states.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Florida | 67 | |
| Texas | 47 | |
| Ohio | 42 | |
| Pennsylvania | 31 | |
| California | 31 | |
| Arizona | 30 | |
| Alabama | 25 | |
| Illinois | 23 | |
| Tennessee | 22 | |
| Kentucky | 22 | |
| New York | 21 | |
| Georgia | 19 | |
| Michigan | 18 | |
| New Jersey | 17 | |
| Massachusetts | 16 |
Showing the 15 largest of 48 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
5 of these are people and 624 are organisations, so 99% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2014, and 183 registered in the last five years, 29% 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.
- ORLANDO, FL11
- COLUMBUS, OH10
- HOUSTON, TX9
- TAMPA, FL8
- TEMPE, AZ8
- PHOENIX, AZ7
- MEMPHIS, TN7
- MOBILE, AL6
- CHICAGO, IL6
- MIRAMAR, FL5
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Mail Order 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 | 143 | 22.7% |
| Community/Retail Pharmacy | 77 | 12.2% |
| Specialty Pharmacy | 50 | 7.9% |
| Durable Medical Equipment & Medical Supplies | 44 | 7.0% |
| Compounding Pharmacy | 25 | 4.0% |
| Home Infusion Therapy Pharmacy | 14 | 2.2% |
| Long Term Care Pharmacy | 12 | 1.9% |
| Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition Supplies (DME) | 6 | 1.0% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Pharmacy.
- Institutional Pharmacy971
- Compounding Pharmacy1,219
- 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.