Pharmacotherapy Pharmacist
6,443 active US providers register Pharmacotherapy Pharmacist as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.07% of every provider in the registry, and the 168th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 1835P1200X
- Grouping
- Pharmacy Service Providers
- Classification
- Pharmacist
- Specialization
- Pharmacotherapy
- Active providers
- 6,443
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
A licensed pharmacist who has demonstrated specialized knowledge and skill in optimizing pharmacotherapeutic care of patients, by developing, implementing, monitoring, and modifying complex treatment plans, providing advanced level education and consultation, and collaborating with other health professionals in the management of therapy.
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 | 618 | |
| Florida | 421 | |
| Michigan | 364 | |
| Texas | 358 | |
| Ohio | 293 | |
| Pennsylvania | 277 | |
| Illinois | 277 | |
| New York | 267 | |
| Georgia | 193 | |
| Washington | 193 | |
| Tennessee | 186 | |
| Arizona | 184 | |
| North Carolina | 180 | |
| Indiana | 168 | |
| Minnesota | 167 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
6,347 of these are people and 96 are organisations, so 1% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2008, and 684 registered in the last five years, 11% 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.
- CHICAGO, IL102
- MINNEAPOLIS, MN70
- SAN DIEGO, CA68
- TUCSON, AZ67
- BALTIMORE, MD61
- PITTSBURGH, PA58
- INDIANAPOLIS, IN57
- NASHVILLE, TN54
- ATLANTA, GA53
- HOUSTON, TX50
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Pharmacotherapy 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 | 632 | 9.8% |
| Pharmacist Clinician (PhC)/ Clinical Pharmacy Specialist | 175 | 2.7% |
| Geriatric Pharmacist | 53 | 0.8% |
| Nutrition Support Pharmacist | 44 | 0.7% |
| Ambulatory Care Pharmacist | 29 | 0.5% |
| Psychiatric Pharmacist | 28 | 0.4% |
| Oncology Pharmacist | 20 | 0.3% |
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 17 | 0.3% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Pharmacist.
- Ambulatory Care Pharmacist3,889
- Oncology Pharmacist1,978
- Geriatric Pharmacist1,325
- Psychiatric Pharmacist1,020
- Critical Care Pharmacist707
- Pediatric Pharmacist371
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.