Pharmacy
30,276 active US providers register Pharmacy as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.3% of every provider in the registry, and the 63rd largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 333600000X
- Grouping
- Suppliers
- Classification
- Pharmacy
- Active providers
- 30,276
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
A facility used by pharmacists for the compounding and dispensing of medicinal preparations and other associated professional and administrative services. A pharmacy is a facility whose primary function is to store, prepare and legally dispense prescription drugs under the professional supervision of a licensed pharmacist. It meets any licensing or certification standards set forth by the jurisdiction where it is located.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| New York | 2,841 | |
| Florida | 2,610 | |
| California | 2,585 | |
| Texas | 2,281 | |
| New Jersey | 1,222 | |
| Illinois | 1,215 | |
| North Carolina | 1,210 | |
| Pennsylvania | 1,026 | |
| Georgia | 965 | |
| Ohio | 847 | |
| Michigan | 787 | |
| Maryland | 786 | |
| Virginia | 770 | |
| Massachusetts | 768 | |
| Tennessee | 657 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
659 of these are people and 29,617 are organisations, so 98% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2006, and 2,623 registered in the last five years, 9% 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.
- BROOKLYN, NY399
- NEW YORK, NY364
- HOUSTON, TX351
- MIAMI, FL299
- CHICAGO, IL277
- BRONX, NY240
- PHILADELPHIA, PA177
- BALTIMORE, MD148
- LOS ANGELES, CA138
- LAS VEGAS, NV135
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Pharmacy 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Community/Retail Pharmacy | 22,055 | 72.8% |
| Durable Medical Equipment & Medical Supplies | 19,955 | 65.9% |
| Clinical Medical Laboratory | 759 | 2.5% |
| Specialty Pharmacy | 436 | 1.4% |
| Long Term Care Pharmacy | 417 | 1.4% |
| Compounding Pharmacy | 405 | 1.3% |
| Clinic Pharmacy | 261 | 0.9% |
| Mail Order Pharmacy | 171 | 0.6% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Pharmacy.
- Long Term Care Pharmacy8,765
- Clinic Pharmacy1,688
- Home Infusion Therapy Pharmacy1,364
- Specialty Pharmacy1,364
- Compounding Pharmacy1,219
- Institutional Pharmacy971
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.