Pain Medicine Physician
3,115 active US providers register Pain Medicine Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.03% of every provider in the registry, and the 238th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 208VP0000X
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Pain Medicine
- Specialization
- Pain Medicine
- Active providers
- 3,115
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
Pain Medicine is a primary medical specialty based on a distinct body of knowledge and a well-defined scope of clinical practice that is founded on science, research and education. It is concerned with the study of pain, the prevention of pain, and the evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation of persons in pain. A comprehensive evaluation incorporates the physical, psychological, cognitive and socio-cultural contributions to pain. The treatment protocol may include pharmacological, invasive, behavioral, cognitive, rehabilitative and complementary strategies provided in a concurrent focused and patient specific manner. The pain medicine physician often serves the patient as a frontline physician regarding their pain, but also may serve as a consultant to other physicians, direct an interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary treatment team, conduct research, or advocate for the patient's pain care with public and private agencies. The Pain Medicine physician may work in variety of settings including office, clinic, hospital, university, or governmental/public agencies.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Texas | 324 | |
| California | 302 | |
| Florida | 288 | |
| New York | 221 | |
| Arizona | 141 | |
| Pennsylvania | 129 | |
| Georgia | 127 | |
| New Jersey | 122 | |
| Ohio | 105 | |
| Michigan | 101 | |
| Illinois | 99 | |
| North Carolina | 92 | |
| Maryland | 87 | |
| Tennessee | 79 | |
| Indiana | 73 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
1,248 of these are people and 1,867 are organisations, so 60% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2011, and 462 registered in the last five years, 15% 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.
- HOUSTON, TX55
- NEW YORK, NY50
- LAS VEGAS, NV36
- SAN ANTONIO, TX35
- PHOENIX, AZ31
- BROOKLYN, NY26
- LOS ANGELES, CA26
- JACKSONVILLE, FL25
- SCOTTSDALE, AZ20
- DALLAS, TX20
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Pain Medicine 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 | 502 | 16.1% |
| Pain Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician | 358 | 11.5% |
| Interventional Pain Medicine Physician | 267 | 8.6% |
| Pain Medicine (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) Physician | 153 | 4.9% |
| Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Physician | 144 | 4.6% |
| Family Medicine Physician | 124 | 4.0% |
| Internal Medicine Physician | 88 | 2.8% |
| Nurse Practitioner | 63 | 2.0% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Pain Medicine.
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.