Plastic Surgery Physician
8,763 active US providers register Plastic Surgery Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.09% of every provider in the registry, and the 146th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 208200000X
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Plastic Surgery
- Active providers
- 8,763
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
A plastic surgeon deals with the repair, reconstruction or replacement of physical defects of form or function involving the skin, musculoskeletal system, craniomaxillofacial structures, hand, extremities, breast and trunk and external genitalia or cosmetic enhancement of these areas of the body. Cosmetic surgery is an essential component of plastic surgery. The plastic surgeon uses cosmetic surgical principles to both improve overall appearance and to optimize the outcome of reconstructive procedures. The surgeon uses aesthetic surgical principles not only to improve undesirable qualities of normal structures but in all reconstructive procedures as well.
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 | 1,340 | |
| Florida | 840 | |
| New York | 702 | |
| Texas | 625 | |
| Pennsylvania | 354 | |
| Illinois | 327 | |
| New Jersey | 319 | |
| Ohio | 309 | |
| Georgia | 290 | |
| Michigan | 260 | |
| North Carolina | 218 | |
| Virginia | 218 | |
| Arizona | 212 | |
| Maryland | 198 | |
| Massachusetts | 196 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
5,728 of these are people and 3,035 are organisations, so 35% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2008, and 755 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.
- NEW YORK, NY311
- BEVERLY HILLS, CA163
- HOUSTON, TX157
- CHICAGO, IL115
- SAN FRANCISCO, CA103
- ATLANTA, GA97
- DALLAS, TX92
- LOS ANGELES, CA92
- MIAMI, FL91
- NEWPORT BEACH, CA78
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Plastic Surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Physician | 435 | 5.0% |
| Surgery Physician | 427 | 4.9% |
| Surgery of the Hand (Plastic Surgery) Physician | 413 | 4.7% |
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 297 | 3.4% |
| Plastic Surgery Within the Head and Neck (Plastic Surgery) Physician | 175 | 2.0% |
| Surgery of the Hand (Surgery) Physician | 92 | 1.0% |
| Specialist | 81 | 0.9% |
| Orthopaedic Hand Surgery Physician | 50 | 0.6% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Plastic Surgery.
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.