Prescribing (Medical) Psychologist
583 active US providers register Prescribing (Medical) Psychologist as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.01% of every provider in the registry, and the 464th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 103TP0016X
- Grouping
- Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers
- Classification
- Psychologist
- Specialization
- Prescribing (Medical)
- Active providers
- 583
- States covered
- 46 of 51
What the code means
A licensed, doctoral-level psychologist authorized to prescribe and has undergone specialized education and training in preparation for prescriptive practice and has passed an examination accepted by the state board of psychology relevant to establishing competence for prescribing, and has received from the state board of psychology a current certificate granting prescriptive authority, which has not been revoked or suspended.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 105 | |
| New Mexico | 55 | |
| California | 40 | |
| Texas | 33 | |
| Florida | 30 | |
| New York | 28 | |
| Illinois | 27 | |
| North Carolina | 17 | |
| New Jersey | 17 | |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | |
| Michigan | 16 | |
| Maryland | 15 | |
| Massachusetts | 14 | |
| Colorado | 12 | |
| Virginia | 10 |
Showing the 15 largest of 46 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
306 of these are people and 277 are organisations, so 48% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2009, and 51 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 ORLEANS, LA22
- BATON ROUGE, LA18
- ALBUQUERQUE, NM16
- LAS CRUCES, NM12
- LAFAYETTE, LA11
- HOUSTON, TX10
- NEW YORK, NY9
- MONROE, LA8
- SHREVEPORT, LA7
- MANDEVILLE, LA6
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Prescribing (Medical) Psychologist 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Clinical Psychologist | 120 | 20.6% |
| Psychologist | 60 | 10.3% |
| Clinical Neuropsychologist | 26 | 4.5% |
| Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychologist | 25 | 4.3% |
| Cognitive & Behavioral Psychologist | 22 | 3.8% |
| Counseling Psychologist | 19 | 3.3% |
| Mental Health Counselor | 17 | 2.9% |
| Clinical Social Worker | 14 | 2.4% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Psychologist.
- Health Psychologist562
- Family Psychologist521
- Addiction (Substance Use Disorder) Psychologist740
- Psychoanalysis Psychologist378
- Rehabilitation Psychologist795
- Group Psychotherapy Psychologist807
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.