Pharmacist Clinician (PhC)/ Clinical Pharmacy Specialist
15,966 active US providers register Pharmacist Clinician (PhC)/ Clinical Pharmacy Specialist as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.2% of every provider in the registry, and the 99th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 1835P0018X
- Grouping
- Pharmacy Service Providers
- Classification
- Pharmacist
- Specialization
- Pharmacist Clinician (PhC)/ Clinical Pharmacy Specialist
- Active providers
- 15,966
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
Pharmacist Clinician/Clinical Pharmacy Specialist is a pharmacist with additional training and an expanded scope of practice that may include prescriptive authority, therapeutic management, and disease management.
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 | 1,606 | |
| Texas | 1,277 | |
| Oregon | 985 | |
| Ohio | 934 | |
| Georgia | 793 | |
| Florida | 664 | |
| Washington | 610 | |
| North Carolina | 530 | |
| New York | 528 | |
| Michigan | 488 | |
| Tennessee | 470 | |
| Pennsylvania | 448 | |
| Kentucky | 433 | |
| Indiana | 416 | |
| Arizona | 414 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
Almost all of these are individual clinicians: 15,813 people against 153 organisations. Half of them had registered by 2017, and 3,785 registered in the last five years, 24% 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.
- PORTLAND, OR335
- HOUSTON, TX259
- LOS ANGELES, CA185
- CHICAGO, IL136
- ALBUQUERQUE, NM124
- CINCINNATI, OH119
- ATLANTA, GA115
- COLUMBUS, OH115
- NASHVILLE, TN111
- SEATTLE, WA109
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Pharmacist Clinician (PhC)/ Clinical Pharmacy Specialist 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pharmacist | 3,342 | 20.9% |
| Pharmacotherapy Pharmacist | 415 | 2.6% |
| Ambulatory Care Pharmacist | 222 | 1.4% |
| Geriatric Pharmacist | 81 | 0.5% |
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 76 | 0.5% |
| Psychiatric Pharmacist | 74 | 0.5% |
| Oncology Pharmacist | 73 | 0.5% |
| Nutrition Support Pharmacist | 35 | 0.2% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Pharmacist.
- Pharmacotherapy Pharmacist6,443
- Ambulatory Care Pharmacist3,889
- Oncology Pharmacist1,978
- Geriatric Pharmacist1,325
- Psychiatric Pharmacist1,020
- Critical Care Pharmacist707
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.