Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Medicine Physician
324 active US providers register Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Medicine Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.00% of every provider in the registry, and the 553rd largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 2080H0002X
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Pediatrics
- Specialization
- Hospice and Palliative Medicine
- Active providers
- 324
- States covered
- 43 of 51
What the code means
A pediatrician with special knowledge and skills to prevent and relieve the suffering experienced by patients with life-limiting illnesses. This specialist works with an interdisciplinary hospice or palliative care team to maximize quality of life while addressing physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs of both patient and family throughout the course of the disease, through the dying process, and beyond for the family. This specialist has expertise in the assessment of patients with advanced disease; the relief of distressing symptoms; the coordination of interdisciplinary patient and family-centered care in diverse venues; the use of specialized care systems including hospice; the management of the imminently dying patient; and legal and ethical decision making in end-of-life care.
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 | 29 | |
| New York | 25 | |
| Texas | 24 | |
| Florida | 23 | |
| Massachusetts | 17 | |
| Ohio | 14 | |
| New Jersey | 12 | |
| Illinois | 11 | |
| Missouri | 10 | |
| Utah | 9 | |
| Indiana | 9 | |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | |
| Washington | 9 | |
| Tennessee | 8 | |
| Michigan | 8 |
Showing the 15 largest of 43 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
286 of these are people and 38 are organisations, so 12% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2010, and 20 registered in the last five years, 6% 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, NY13
- BOSTON, MA12
- INDIANAPOLIS, IN8
- PHOENIX, AZ7
- SALT LAKE CITY, UT7
- PALO ALTO, CA7
- SAN ANTONIO, TX6
- MEMPHIS, TN6
- PHILADELPHIA, PA6
- ORLANDO, FL6
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Pediatric Hospice and Palliative 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.
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Pediatrics.
- Pediatric Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Physician359
- Pediatric Sports Medicine Physician283
- Pediatric Rheumatology Physician647
- Pediatric Allergy/Immunology Physician650
- Pediatric Nephrology Physician1,126
- Developmental - Behavioral Pediatrics Physician1,561
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.