Sports Medicine (Orthopaedic Surgery) Physician
4,315 active US providers register Sports Medicine (Orthopaedic Surgery) Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.05% of every provider in the registry, and the 203rd largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 207XX0005X
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Orthopaedic Surgery
- Specialization
- Sports Medicine
- Active providers
- 4,315
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
An orthopaedic surgeon trained in sports medicine provides appropriate care for all structures of the musculoskeletal system directly affected by participation in sporting activity. This specialist is proficient in areas including conditioning, training and fitness, athletic performance and the impact of dietary supplements, pharmaceuticals, and nutrition on performance and health, coordination of care within the team setting utilizing other health care professionals, field evaluation and management, soft tissue biomechanics and injury healing and repair. Knowledge and understanding of the principles and techniques of rehabilitation, athletic equipment and orthotic devices enables the specialist to prevent and manage athletic injuries.
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 | 501 | |
| Texas | 319 | |
| New York | 298 | |
| Florida | 291 | |
| Ohio | 186 | |
| Colorado | 165 | |
| New Jersey | 153 | |
| Tennessee | 151 | |
| Pennsylvania | 146 | |
| Georgia | 129 | |
| Illinois | 120 | |
| North Carolina | 119 | |
| Virginia | 118 | |
| Maryland | 113 | |
| Arizona | 110 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
3,308 of these are people and 1,007 are organisations, so 23% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2007, and 293 registered in the last five years, 7% 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, NY95
- HOUSTON, TX53
- LOS ANGELES, CA51
- CINCINNATI, OH41
- CHICAGO, IL39
- DALLAS, TX33
- SAN DIEGO, CA29
- BIRMINGHAM, AL27
- ATLANTA, GA25
- BOSTON, MA25
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Sports Medicine (Orthopaedic Surgery) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Orthopaedic Surgery Physician | 1,719 | 39.8% |
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 214 | 5.0% |
| Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery Physician | 67 | 1.6% |
| Orthopaedic Trauma Physician | 57 | 1.3% |
| Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgery Physician | 43 | 1.0% |
| Specialist | 38 | 0.9% |
| Orthopaedic Hand Surgery Physician | 32 | 0.7% |
| Sports Medicine (Family Medicine) Physician | 32 | 0.7% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Orthopaedic Surgery.
- Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Physician3,372
- Orthopaedic Hand Surgery Physician3,372
- Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery Physician1,582
- Orthopaedic Trauma Physician1,046
- Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery Physician1,031
- Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgery Physician951
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.