Neurocritical Care Physician
614 active US providers register Neurocritical Care Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.01% of every provider in the registry, and the 452nd largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 2084A2900X
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Psychiatry & Neurology
- Specialization
- Neurocritical Care
- Active providers
- 614
- States covered
- 44 of 51
What the code means
The medical subspecialty of Neurocritical Care is devoted to the comprehensive, multisystem care of the critically-ill neurological patient. Like other intensivists, the neurointensivist generally assumes the primary role for coordinating the care of his or her patients in the ICU, both the neurological and medical management of the patient. They may also provide consultative services for these patients as requested within the health system.
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 | 76 | |
| Texas | 62 | |
| New York | 49 | |
| Illinois | 47 | |
| Florida | 45 | |
| Ohio | 40 | |
| Georgia | 23 | |
| Arizona | 21 | |
| North Carolina | 18 | |
| Pennsylvania | 18 | |
| Massachusetts | 15 | |
| Michigan | 15 | |
| Connecticut | 14 | |
| Maryland | 14 | |
| Colorado | 13 |
Showing the 15 largest of 44 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
592 of these are people and 22 are organisations, so 4% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2014, and 33 registered in the last five years, 5% 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.
- CHICAGO, IL30
- HOUSTON, TX21
- NEW YORK, NY18
- PHOENIX, AZ17
- LOS ANGELES, CA16
- CINCINNATI, OH15
- DALLAS, TX14
- BALTIMORE, MD14
- JACKSONVILLE, FL11
- BOSTON, MA11
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Neurocritical Care 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Neurology Physician | 593 | 96.6% |
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 98 | 16.0% |
| Internal Medicine Physician | 70 | 11.4% |
| Vascular Neurology Physician | 64 | 10.4% |
| Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician | 53 | 8.6% |
| Neurological Surgery Physician | 18 | 2.9% |
| Emergency Medicine Physician | 15 | 2.4% |
| Hospitalist Physician | 11 | 1.8% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Psychiatry & Neurology.
- Epilepsy Physician594
- Forensic Psychiatry Physician554
- Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry Physician513
- Sleep Medicine (Psychiatry & Neurology) Physician788
- Psychosomatic Medicine Physician395
- Addiction Medicine (Psychiatry & Neurology) Physician834
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.