Neurology Physician
27,755 active US providers register Neurology Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.3% of every provider in the registry, and the 65th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 2084N0400X
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Psychiatry & Neurology
- Specialization
- Neurology
- Active providers
- 27,755
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
A Neurologist specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases or impaired function of the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, muscles, autonomic nervous system, and blood vessels that relate to these structures.
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 | 2,960 | |
| New York | 2,237 | |
| Florida | 2,110 | |
| Texas | 1,912 | |
| Pennsylvania | 1,304 | |
| Illinois | 1,132 | |
| Massachusetts | 1,060 | |
| Ohio | 942 | |
| Michigan | 940 | |
| North Carolina | 845 | |
| New Jersey | 801 | |
| Maryland | 702 | |
| Georgia | 693 | |
| Virginia | 690 | |
| Arizona | 626 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
21,942 of these are people and 5,813 are organisations, so 21% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2008, and 2,751 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.
- NEW YORK, NY696
- BOSTON, MA537
- CHICAGO, IL438
- LOS ANGELES, CA395
- HOUSTON, TX374
- PHILADELPHIA, PA356
- ROCHESTER, MN283
- SAN FRANCISCO, CA281
- SAINT LOUIS, MO271
- BALTIMORE, MD255
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Neurology 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 | 2,011 | 7.2% |
| Clinical Neurophysiology Physician | 1,051 | 3.8% |
| Internal Medicine Physician | 670 | 2.4% |
| Vascular Neurology Physician | 630 | 2.3% |
| Sleep Medicine (Psychiatry & Neurology) Physician | 492 | 1.8% |
| Neuromuscular Medicine (Psychiatry & Neurology) Physician | 357 | 1.3% |
| Specialist | 313 | 1.1% |
| Psychiatry Physician | 285 | 1.0% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Psychiatry & Neurology.
- Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Physician8,938
- Neurology with Special Qualifications in Child Neurology Physician2,971
- Geriatric Psychiatry Physician1,171
- Clinical Neurophysiology Physician1,017
- Addiction Psychiatry Physician950
- Vascular Neurology Physician924
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.