Taxonomy 207QS0010X

Sports Medicine (Family Medicine) Physician

3,376 active US providers register Sports Medicine (Family Medicine) Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.04% of every provider in the registry, and the 230th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.

Taxonomy code: 207QS0010X
Grouping: Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
Classification: Family Medicine
Specialization: Sports Medicine
Active providers: 3,376
States covered: 51 of 51

What the code means

A family medicine physician that is trained to be responsible for continuous care in the field of sports medicine, not only for the enhancement of health and fitness, but also for the prevention of injury and illness. A sports medicine physician must have knowledge and experience in the promotion of wellness and the prevention of injury. Knowledge about special areas of medicine such as exercise physiology, biomechanics, nutrition, psychology, physical rehabilitation, epidemiology, physical evaluation, injuries (treatment and prevention and referral practice) and the role of exercise in promoting a healthy lifestyle are essential to the practice of sports medicine. The sports medicine physician requires special education to provide the knowledge to improve the health care of the individual engaged in physical exercise (sports) whether as an individual or in team participation.

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	314
Texas	256
Pennsylvania	229
Florida	209
Ohio	153
Illinois	139
North Carolina	138
New York	125
New Jersey	121
Minnesota	107
Michigan	100
Indiana	90
Washington	90
Arizona	86
Virginia	86

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

Who registers under this code

2,754 of these are people and 622 are organisations, so 18% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2011, and 333 registered in the last five years, 10% 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.

SAN DIEGO, CA36
HOUSTON, TX31
SAN ANTONIO, TX25
PHILADELPHIA, PA25
COLUMBUS, OH23
NEW YORK, NY22
SEATTLE, WA21
LOUISVILLE, KY19
LOS ANGELES, CA19
PHOENIX, AZ18

What else they list

Providers whose primary code is Sports Medicine (Family 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
Family Medicine Physician	1,381	40.9%
Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program	282	8.4%
Emergency Medicine Physician	49	1.5%
Sports Medicine (Orthopaedic Surgery) Physician	49	1.5%
Sports Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician	35	1.0%
Orthopaedic Surgery Physician	27	0.8%
Internal Medicine Physician	22	0.7%
Pediatrics Physician	19	0.6%

Nearby specialties

Other taxonomies NUCC files under Family 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.