Sports Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician
485 active US providers register Sports Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.01% of every provider in the registry, and the 497th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 207RS0010X
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Internal Medicine
- Specialization
- Sports Medicine
- Active providers
- 485
- States covered
- 47 of 51
What the code means
An internist 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 healthcare of the individual.
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 | 59 | |
| New York | 50 | |
| Florida | 37 | |
| New Jersey | 32 | |
| Illinois | 26 | |
| Texas | 22 | |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | |
| Massachusetts | 14 | |
| Tennessee | 14 | |
| North Carolina | 14 | |
| Ohio | 13 | |
| Wisconsin | 13 | |
| Georgia | 13 | |
| Utah | 12 | |
| Colorado | 11 |
Showing the 15 largest of 47 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
339 of these are people and 146 are organisations, so 30% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2011, and 57 registered in the last five years, 12% 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 YORK, NY18
- CHICAGO, IL10
- PHILADELPHIA, PA9
- BOSTON, MA7
- NASHVILLE, TN7
- LOS ANGELES, CA7
- ATLANTA, GA7
- JACKSONVILLE, FL6
- SAN FRANCISCO, CA5
- HONOLULU, HI4
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Sports Medicine (Internal 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.
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Internal Medicine.
- Adolescent Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician398
- Hepatology Physician363
- Obesity Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician327
- Transplant Hepatology Physician281
- Allergy & Immunology (Internal Medicine) Physician742
- Addiction Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician1,040
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.