Pharmacist
294,591 active US providers register Pharmacist as their primary taxonomy. That is 3.2% of every provider in the registry, and the 4th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 183500000X
- Grouping
- Pharmacy Service Providers
- Classification
- Pharmacist
- Active providers
- 294,591
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
An individual licensed by the appropriate state regulatory agency to engage in the practice of pharmacy. The practice of pharmacy includes, but is not limited to, assessment, interpretation, evaluation, and implementation, initiation, monitoring or modification of medication and or medical orders; the compounding or dispensing of medication and or medical orders; participation in drug and device procurement, storage, and selection; drug administration; drug regimen reviews; drug or drug-related research; provision of patient education and the provision of those acts or services necessary to provide medication therapy management services in all areas of patient 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 | 32,750 | |
| New York | 23,245 | |
| Florida | 19,462 | |
| Texas | 18,647 | |
| Pennsylvania | 13,166 | |
| Ohio | 10,848 | |
| Illinois | 9,794 | |
| North Carolina | 9,721 | |
| Michigan | 8,409 | |
| Georgia | 8,376 | |
| New Jersey | 8,248 | |
| Washington | 7,828 | |
| Tennessee | 7,256 | |
| Arizona | 6,803 | |
| Virginia | 6,620 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
291,453 of these are people and 3,138 are organisations, so 1% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2015, and 62,691 registered in the last five years, 21% 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.
- BROOKLYN, NY2,830
- NEW YORK, NY2,830
- HOUSTON, TX2,356
- CHICAGO, IL1,923
- LOS ANGELES, CA1,794
- PHILADELPHIA, PA1,627
- SAN DIEGO, CA1,556
- PHOENIX, AZ1,496
- PITTSBURGH, PA1,484
- SEATTLE, WA1,480
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Pharmacist 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 Clinician (PhC)/ Clinical Pharmacy Specialist | 1,495 | 0.5% |
| Pharmacotherapy Pharmacist | 727 | 0.2% |
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 624 | 0.2% |
| Ambulatory Care Pharmacist | 419 | 0.1% |
| Geriatric Pharmacist | 278 | 0.1% |
| Pharmacy Technician | 214 | 0.1% |
| Community/Retail Pharmacy | 172 | 0.1% |
| Oncology Pharmacist | 137 | 0.0% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Pharmacist.
- Pharmacist Clinician (PhC)/ Clinical Pharmacy Specialist15,966
- Pharmacotherapy Pharmacist6,443
- Ambulatory Care Pharmacist3,889
- Oncology Pharmacist1,978
- Geriatric Pharmacist1,325
- Psychiatric Pharmacist1,020
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.