Medical Specialty Clinic/Center
6,242 active US providers register Medical Specialty Clinic/Center as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.07% of every provider in the registry, and the 174th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 261QM2500X
- Grouping
- Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
- Classification
- Clinic/Center
- Specialization
- Medical Specialty
- Active providers
- 6,242
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
An entity, facility, or distinct part of a facility providing diagnostic, treatment, and prescriptive services related to a specific area of medical specialization. Frequently used for Title V related Children's Specialty services or to meet specific public health needs (e.g., infectious diseases or breast and cervical cancer).
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 | 874 | |
| Florida | 553 | |
| Texas | 423 | |
| New York | 373 | |
| Illinois | 231 | |
| New Jersey | 220 | |
| Oklahoma | 213 | |
| Georgia | 198 | |
| Arizona | 179 | |
| Michigan | 172 | |
| Colorado | 164 | |
| Washington | 153 | |
| North Carolina | 149 | |
| Maryland | 139 | |
| Pennsylvania | 133 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
108 of these are people and 6,134 are organisations, so 98% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2012, and 1,049 registered in the last five years, 17% 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, NY97
- HOUSTON, TX77
- TULSA, OK63
- CHICAGO, IL56
- LOS ANGELES, CA56
- MIAMI, FL45
- DALLAS, TX39
- BROOKLYN, NY38
- COLUMBUS, OH35
- NEWPORT BEACH, CA33
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Medical Specialty Clinic/Center 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Clinic/Center | 53 | 0.8% |
| Primary Care Clinic/Center | 53 | 0.8% |
| Health Service Clinic/Center | 46 | 0.7% |
| Infusion Therapy Clinic/Center | 29 | 0.5% |
| Multi-Specialty Clinic/Center | 29 | 0.5% |
| Internal Medicine Physician | 26 | 0.4% |
| Nurse Practitioner | 24 | 0.4% |
| Family Nurse Practitioner | 23 | 0.4% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Clinic/Center.
- Rehabilitation Clinic/Center5,712
- Substance Use Disorder Rehabilitation Clinic/Center7,366
- Adult Day Care Clinic/Center7,533
- Radiology Clinic/Center4,444
- Adolescent and Children Mental Health Clinic/Center3,814
- Hearing and Speech Clinic/Center3,808
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.