Neurological Surgery Physician
11,920 active US providers register Neurological Surgery Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.1% of every provider in the registry, and the 119th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 207T00000X
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Neurological Surgery
- Active providers
- 11,920
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
A neurological surgeon provides the operative and non-operative management (i.e., prevention, diagnosis, evaluation, treatment, critical care, and rehabilitation) of disorders of the central, peripheral, and autonomic nervous systems, including their supporting structures and vascular supply; the evaluation and treatment of pathological processes which modify function or activity of the nervous system; and the operative and non-operative management of pain. A neurological surgeon treats patients with disorders of the nervous system; disorders of the brain, meninges, skull, and their blood supply, including the extracranial carotid and vertebral arteries; disorders of the pituitary gland; disorders of the spinal cord, meninges, and vertebral column, including those which may require treatment by spinal fusion or instrumentation; and disorders of the cranial and spinal nerves throughout their distribution.
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 | 1,366 | |
| Florida | 967 | |
| Texas | 963 | |
| New York | 691 | |
| Pennsylvania | 531 | |
| Illinois | 458 | |
| Ohio | 421 | |
| Michigan | 406 | |
| Colorado | 390 | |
| North Carolina | 337 | |
| Georgia | 318 | |
| New Jersey | 286 | |
| Maryland | 276 | |
| Washington | 272 | |
| Massachusetts | 264 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
8,671 of these are people and 3,249 are organisations, so 27% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2008, and 1,163 registered in the last five years, 10% 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.
- HOUSTON, TX207
- NEW YORK, NY198
- CHICAGO, IL187
- BOSTON, MA146
- LOS ANGELES, CA139
- SEATTLE, WA136
- PHILADELPHIA, PA128
- BALTIMORE, MD107
- SAINT LOUIS, MO101
- PHOENIX, AZ99
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Neurological Surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 649 | 5.4% |
| Neurology Physician | 184 | 1.5% |
| Specialist | 120 | 1.0% |
| Surgery Physician | 100 | 0.8% |
| Orthopaedic Surgery Physician | 100 | 0.8% |
| Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Physician | 87 | 0.7% |
| Physician Assistant | 80 | 0.7% |
| Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Physician | 70 | 0.6% |
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.