Pain Medicine (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) Physician
3,674 active US providers register Pain Medicine (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.04% of every provider in the registry, and the 218th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 2081P2900X
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
- Specialization
- Pain Medicine
- Active providers
- 3,674
- States covered
- 49 of 51
What the code means
A physician who provides a high level of care, either as a primary physician or consultant, for patients experiencing problems with acute, chronic or cancer pain in both hospital and ambulatory settings. Patient care needs may also be 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 | 551 | |
| New York | 386 | |
| Florida | 355 | |
| Texas | 295 | |
| New Jersey | 208 | |
| Maryland | 186 | |
| Pennsylvania | 123 | |
| Arizona | 121 | |
| Georgia | 114 | |
| Virginia | 94 | |
| Michigan | 94 | |
| Illinois | 91 | |
| Colorado | 86 | |
| Ohio | 79 | |
| North Carolina | 72 |
Showing the 15 largest of 49 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
1,892 of these are people and 1,782 are organisations, so 49% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2010, and 468 registered in the last five years, 13% of the current population.
That is close to the pace of the registry as a whole.
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, NY91
- BROOKLYN, NY60
- HOUSTON, TX48
- LOS ANGELES, CA43
- BALTIMORE, MD31
- LAS VEGAS, NV27
- DALLAS, TX27
- PHOENIX, AZ27
- SAN ANTONIO, TX25
- SAN DIEGO, CA25
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Pain Medicine (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Physician | 656 | 17.9% |
| Interventional Pain Medicine Physician | 219 | 6.0% |
| Pain Medicine Physician | 130 | 3.5% |
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 112 | 3.0% |
| Sports Medicine (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) Physician | 88 | 2.4% |
| Chiropractor | 78 | 2.1% |
| Pain Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician | 57 | 1.6% |
| Family Medicine Physician | 53 | 1.4% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation.
- Sports Medicine (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) Physician1,661
- Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine Physician524
- Spinal Cord Injury Medicine Physician277
- Neuromuscular Medicine (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) Physician276
- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Physician22,389
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.