Taxonomy 2083P0901X

Public Health & General Preventive Medicine Physician

2,414 active US providers register Public Health & General Preventive Medicine Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.03% of every provider in the registry, and the 265th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.

Taxonomy code: 2083P0901X
Grouping: Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
Classification: Preventive Medicine
Specialization: Public Health & General Preventive Medicine
Active providers: 2,414
States covered: 51 of 51

What the code means

Public health and general preventive medicine focuses on promoting health, preventing disease, and managing the health of communities and defined populations. These practitioners combine population-based public health skills with knowledge of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention-oriented clinical practice in a wide variety of settings.

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	391
Texas	154
Maryland	145
New York	143
Florida	143
Georgia	135
Virginia	102
Washington	76
Michigan	75
Massachusetts	65
Colorado	64
Illinois	60
North Carolina	59
Pennsylvania	55
Tennessee	50

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

Who registers under this code

1,851 of these are people and 563 are organisations, so 23% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2010, and 386 registered in the last five years, 16% 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.

ATLANTA, GA71
SAN DIEGO, CA42
NEW YORK, NY40
CHICAGO, IL35
LOS ANGELES, CA32
BALTIMORE, MD31
WASHINGTON, DC28
BETHESDA, MD27
SAN FRANCISCO, CA25
DALLAS, TX24

What else they list

Providers whose primary code is Public Health & General Preventive Medicine 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
General Practice Physician	110	4.6%
Family Medicine Physician	100	4.1%
Internal Medicine Physician	63	2.6%
Pediatrics Physician	56	2.3%
Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program	49	2.0%
Occupational Medicine Physician	38	1.6%
Preventive Medicine/Occupational Environmental Medicine Physician	31	1.3%
Emergency Medicine Physician	25	1.0%

Nearby specialties

Other taxonomies NUCC files under Preventive Medicine.

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.