Psychiatry Physician
72,567 active US providers register Psychiatry Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.8% of every provider in the registry, and the 35th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 2084P0800X
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Psychiatry & Neurology
- Specialization
- Psychiatry
- Active providers
- 72,567
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
A Psychiatrist specializes in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of mental disorders, emotional disorders, psychotic disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, substance-related disorders, sexual and gender identity disorders and adjustment disorders. Biologic, psychological, and social components of illnesses are explored and understood in treatment of the whole person. Tools used may include diagnostic laboratory tests, prescribed medications, evaluation and treatment of psychological and interpersonal problems with individuals and families, and intervention for coping with stress, crises, and other problems.
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 | 10,350 | |
| New York | 7,554 | |
| Texas | 4,446 | |
| Florida | 4,017 | |
| Pennsylvania | 3,199 | |
| Massachusetts | 3,074 | |
| Illinois | 2,815 | |
| North Carolina | 2,425 | |
| Michigan | 2,259 | |
| New Jersey | 2,067 | |
| Maryland | 2,028 | |
| Ohio | 1,959 | |
| Virginia | 1,739 | |
| Georgia | 1,704 | |
| Washington | 1,406 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
57,921 of these are people and 14,646 are organisations, so 20% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2008, and 10,065 registered in the last five years, 14% 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, NY2,926
- LOS ANGELES, CA1,096
- CHICAGO, IL1,063
- BOSTON, MA892
- HOUSTON, TX878
- SAN FRANCISCO, CA822
- PHILADELPHIA, PA779
- BROOKLYN, NY656
- SAN DIEGO, CA628
- BALTIMORE, MD580
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Psychiatry 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 | 4,897 | 6.7% |
| Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Physician | 4,148 | 5.7% |
| Geriatric Psychiatry Physician | 1,044 | 1.4% |
| Addiction Psychiatry Physician | 940 | 1.3% |
| Clinical Social Worker | 893 | 1.2% |
| Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner | 739 | 1.0% |
| Internal Medicine Physician | 669 | 0.9% |
| Forensic Psychiatry Physician | 642 | 0.9% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Psychiatry & Neurology.
- Neurology Physician27,755
- Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Physician8,938
- Neurology with Special Qualifications in Child Neurology Physician2,971
- Geriatric Psychiatry Physician1,171
- Clinical Neurophysiology Physician1,017
- Addiction Psychiatry Physician950
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.