Taxonomy 208100000X

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Physician

22,389 active US providers register Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.2% of every provider in the registry, and the 74th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.

Taxonomy code: 208100000X
Grouping: Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
Classification: Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Active providers: 22,389
States covered: 51 of 51

What the code means

Physical medicine and rehabilitation, also referred to as rehabilitation medicine, is the medical specialty concerned with diagnosing, evaluating, and treating patients with physical disabilities. These disabilities may arise from conditions affecting the musculoskeletal system such as neck and back pain, sports injuries, or other painful conditions affecting the limbs, such as carpal tunnel syndrome. Alternatively, the disabilities may result from neurological trauma or disease such as spinal cord injury, head injury or stroke. A physician certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation is often called a physiatrist. The primary goal of the physiatrist is to achieve maximal restoration of physical, psychological, social and vocational function through comprehensive rehabilitation. Pain management is often an important part of the role of the physiatrist. For diagnosis and evaluation, a physiatrist may include the techniques of electromyography to supplement the standard history, physical, x-ray and laboratory examinations. The physiatrist has expertise in the appropriate use of therapeutic exercise, prosthetics (artificial limbs), orthotics and mechanical and electrical devices.

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	2,109
New York	2,010
Texas	1,748
Florida	1,630
Pennsylvania	1,169
Michigan	1,005
New Jersey	982
Illinois	914
Ohio	659
Colorado	598
Maryland	571
Washington	561
North Carolina	551
Virginia	522
Arizona	505

Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.

Who registers under this code

15,724 of these are people and 6,665 are organisations, so 30% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2011, and 4,174 registered in the last five years, 19% 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.

NEW YORK, NY400
CHICAGO, IL284
BROOKLYN, NY258
HOUSTON, TX252
PHILADELPHIA, PA202
MIAMI, FL182
DALLAS, TX178
SEATTLE, WA171
LOS ANGELES, CA163
SAN ANTONIO, TX145

What else they list

Providers whose primary code is Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation 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	924	4.1%
Pain Medicine (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) Physician	709	3.2%
Internal Medicine Physician	433	1.9%
Physical Therapist	428	1.9%
Sports Medicine (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) Physician	358	1.6%
Chiropractor	331	1.5%
Interventional Pain Medicine Physician	240	1.1%
Pain Medicine Physician	209	0.9%

Nearby specialties

Other taxonomies NUCC files under Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation.

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.