Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Physician
3,372 active US providers register Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.04% of every provider in the registry, and the 231st largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 207XS0117X
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Orthopaedic Surgery
- Specialization
- Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine
- Active providers
- 3,372
- States covered
- 50 of 51
What the code means
Recognized by several state medical boards as a fellowship subspecialty program of orthopaedic surgery, orthopaedic surgeons of the spine deal with the evaluation and nonoperative and operative treatment of the full spectrum of primary spinal disorders including trauma, degenerative, deformity, tumor, and reconstructive.
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 | 475 | |
| Texas | 366 | |
| Florida | 324 | |
| New York | 239 | |
| New Jersey | 159 | |
| Arizona | 113 | |
| Colorado | 104 | |
| Ohio | 86 | |
| Illinois | 83 | |
| Indiana | 80 | |
| Georgia | 76 | |
| Missouri | 74 | |
| Washington | 74 | |
| Maryland | 73 | |
| Virginia | 73 |
Showing the 15 largest of 50 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
2,275 of these are people and 1,097 are organisations, so 33% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2008, and 315 registered in the last five years, 9% 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, NY77
- LOS ANGELES, CA56
- HOUSTON, TX55
- DALLAS, TX53
- PHOENIX, AZ34
- LOUISVILLE, KY34
- SEATTLE, WA32
- SAINT LOUIS, MO31
- SAN ANTONIO, TX29
- PLANO, TX28
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Orthopaedic Surgery Physician | 1,134 | 33.6% |
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 111 | 3.3% |
| Orthopaedic Trauma Physician | 51 | 1.5% |
| Neurological Surgery Physician | 44 | 1.3% |
| Sports Medicine (Orthopaedic Surgery) Physician | 37 | 1.1% |
| Specialist | 33 | 1.0% |
| Interventional Pain Medicine Physician | 32 | 0.9% |
| Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Physician | 30 | 0.9% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Orthopaedic Surgery.
- Orthopaedic Hand Surgery Physician3,372
- Sports Medicine (Orthopaedic Surgery) Physician4,315
- Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery Physician1,582
- Orthopaedic Trauma Physician1,046
- Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery Physician1,031
- Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgery Physician951
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.