Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgery Physician
951 active US providers register Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgery Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.01% of every provider in the registry, and the 394th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 207XX0004X
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Orthopaedic Surgery
- Specialization
- Foot and Ankle Surgery
- Active providers
- 951
- States covered
- 50 of 51
What the code means
Recognized by several state medical boards as a fellowship subspecialty program of orthopaedic surgery, foot and ankle surgeons deal with adult reconstructive foot and ankle surgery, adult foot and ankle trauma, sports medicine foot and ankle, and children's foot and ankle reconstructive surgery.
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 | 85 | |
| Texas | 85 | |
| New York | 69 | |
| Florida | 60 | |
| Ohio | 48 | |
| Maryland | 36 | |
| Washington | 34 | |
| Pennsylvania | 33 | |
| Colorado | 32 | |
| Illinois | 32 | |
| Virginia | 31 | |
| Georgia | 25 | |
| Arizona | 25 | |
| Tennessee | 22 | |
| Indiana | 22 |
Showing the 15 largest of 50 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
822 of these are people and 129 are organisations, so 14% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2007, and 73 registered in the last five years, 8% 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, NY28
- BALTIMORE, MD22
- SEATTLE, WA18
- HOUSTON, TX14
- INDIANAPOLIS, IN9
- ATLANTA, GA9
- CHICAGO, IL9
- DALLAS, TX9
- AUSTIN, TX8
- CINCINNATI, OH8
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle 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.
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Orthopaedic Surgery.
- Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery Physician1,031
- Orthopaedic Trauma Physician1,046
- Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery Physician1,582
- Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Physician3,372
- Orthopaedic Hand Surgery Physician3,372
- Sports Medicine (Orthopaedic Surgery) Physician4,315
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.