Pediatrics Physician
87,449 active US providers register Pediatrics Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.9% of every provider in the registry, and the 29th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 208000000X
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Pediatrics
- Active providers
- 87,449
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
A pediatrician is concerned with the physical, emotional and social health of children from birth to young adulthood. Care encompasses a broad spectrum of health services ranging from preventive healthcare to the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic diseases. A pediatrician deals with biological, social and environmental influences on the developing child, and with the impact of disease and dysfunction on development.
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 | 10,258 | |
| Texas | 7,110 | |
| New York | 6,602 | |
| Florida | 5,333 | |
| Pennsylvania | 3,960 | |
| Illinois | 3,553 | |
| Ohio | 3,294 | |
| North Carolina | 2,887 | |
| Massachusetts | 2,873 | |
| New Jersey | 2,768 | |
| Georgia | 2,754 | |
| Michigan | 2,568 | |
| Virginia | 2,342 | |
| Maryland | 2,290 | |
| Washington | 1,865 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
74,897 of these are people and 12,552 are organisations, so 14% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2007, and 9,019 registered in the last five years, 10% 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.
- HOUSTON, TX1,262
- PHILADELPHIA, PA1,260
- CHICAGO, IL1,224
- NEW YORK, NY1,092
- LOS ANGELES, CA959
- BROOKLYN, NY855
- BOSTON, MA839
- WASHINGTON, DC622
- BRONX, NY603
- BALTIMORE, MD597
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Pediatrics 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 6,146 | 7.0% |
| Internal Medicine Physician | 1,341 | 1.5% |
| Hospitalist Physician | 1,111 | 1.3% |
| Pediatric Adolescent Medicine Physician | 625 | 0.7% |
| Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Physician | 596 | 0.7% |
| Family Medicine Physician | 569 | 0.7% |
| Pediatric Emergency Medicine (Pediatrics) Physician | 559 | 0.6% |
| General Practice Physician | 466 | 0.5% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Pediatrics.
- Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Physician8,396
- Pediatric Cardiology Physician4,203
- Pediatric Hematology & Oncology Physician3,877
- Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Physician3,866
- Pediatric Adolescent Medicine Physician3,621
- Pediatric Emergency Medicine (Pediatrics) Physician2,928
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.