Pain Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician
8,050 active US providers register Pain Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.09% of every provider in the registry, and the 152nd largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 207LP2900X
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Anesthesiology
- Specialization
- Pain Medicine
- Active providers
- 8,050
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
An anesthesiologist who provides a high level of care, either as a primary physician or consultant, for patients experiencing problems with acute, chronic and/or cancer pain in both hospital and ambulatory settings. Patient care needs are also coordinated with other specialists.
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 | 909 | |
| Texas | 846 | |
| Florida | 784 | |
| New York | 539 | |
| New Jersey | 366 | |
| Illinois | 352 | |
| Pennsylvania | 336 | |
| Ohio | 238 | |
| Arizona | 224 | |
| North Carolina | 215 | |
| Georgia | 198 | |
| Maryland | 179 | |
| Missouri | 156 | |
| Massachusetts | 155 | |
| Virginia | 155 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
4,524 of these are people and 3,526 are organisations, so 44% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2008, and 709 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, NY147
- HOUSTON, TX125
- DALLAS, TX89
- CHICAGO, IL83
- LAS VEGAS, NV75
- BROOKLYN, NY63
- PHOENIX, AZ57
- SAN ANTONIO, TX56
- LOS ANGELES, CA54
- SAN DIEGO, CA52
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Pain Medicine (Anesthesiology) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Anesthesiology Physician | 2,633 | 32.7% |
| Interventional Pain Medicine Physician | 501 | 6.2% |
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 291 | 3.6% |
| Pain Medicine Physician | 290 | 3.6% |
| Internal Medicine Physician | 87 | 1.1% |
| Addiction Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician | 70 | 0.9% |
| Pain Medicine (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) Physician | 68 | 0.8% |
| Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist | 65 | 0.8% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Anesthesiology.
- Pediatric Anesthesiology Physician2,078
- Critical Care Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician1,425
- Anesthesiology Physician72,200
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.