Specialty Pharmacy
1,364 active US providers register Specialty Pharmacy as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.01% of every provider in the registry, and the 346th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 3336S0011X
- Grouping
- Suppliers
- Classification
- Pharmacy
- Specialization
- Specialty Pharmacy
- Active providers
- 1,364
- States covered
- 48 of 51
What the code means
A pharmacy that dispenses generally low volume and high cost medicinal preparations to patients who are undergoing intensive therapies for illnesses that are generally chronic, complex and potentially life threatening. Often these therapies require specialized delivery and administration.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Texas | 146 | |
| Florida | 141 | |
| California | 133 | |
| New York | 98 | |
| North Carolina | 51 | |
| Ohio | 49 | |
| Michigan | 46 | |
| Pennsylvania | 41 | |
| Tennessee | 39 | |
| Georgia | 38 | |
| Illinois | 37 | |
| New Jersey | 37 | |
| Alabama | 30 | |
| Missouri | 29 | |
| Louisiana | 29 |
Showing the 15 largest of 48 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
23 of these are people and 1,341 are organisations, so 98% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2016, and 452 registered in the last five years, 33% 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.
- HOUSTON, TX28
- ORLANDO, FL19
- DALLAS, TX17
- LAS VEGAS, NV17
- DENVER, CO16
- TAMPA, FL13
- MIAMI, FL13
- OKLAHOMA CITY, OK13
- LOS ANGELES, CA12
- BROOKLYN, NY12
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Specialty Pharmacy 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Community/Retail Pharmacy | 462 | 33.9% |
| Pharmacy | 442 | 32.4% |
| Home Infusion Therapy Pharmacy | 185 | 13.6% |
| Durable Medical Equipment & Medical Supplies | 149 | 10.9% |
| Mail Order Pharmacy | 140 | 10.3% |
| Compounding Pharmacy | 98 | 7.2% |
| Long Term Care Pharmacy | 76 | 5.6% |
| Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition Supplies (DME) | 54 | 4.0% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Pharmacy.
- Home Infusion Therapy Pharmacy1,364
- Compounding Pharmacy1,219
- Clinic Pharmacy1,688
- Institutional Pharmacy971
- Mail Order Pharmacy629
- Long Term Care Pharmacy8,765
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.