Surgery of the Hand (Plastic Surgery) Physician
512 active US providers register Surgery of the Hand (Plastic Surgery) Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.01% of every provider in the registry, and the 489th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 2082S0105X
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Plastic Surgery
- Specialization
- Surgery of the Hand
- Active providers
- 512
- States covered
- 43 of 51
What the code means
A plastic surgeon with additional training in the investigation, preservation, and restoration by medical, surgical and rehabilitative means of all structures of the upper extremity directly affecting the form and function of the hand and wrist.
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 | 66 | |
| California | 66 | |
| New York | 36 | |
| Florida | 34 | |
| Michigan | 26 | |
| Illinois | 20 | |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | |
| Ohio | 19 | |
| Colorado | 19 | |
| New Jersey | 19 | |
| Missouri | 16 | |
| Kentucky | 15 | |
| Massachusetts | 13 | |
| Maryland | 11 | |
| Wisconsin | 10 |
Showing the 15 largest of 43 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
356 of these are people and 156 are organisations, so 30% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2007, and 26 registered in the last five years, 5% 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.
- HOUSTON, TX12
- LOUISVILLE, KY12
- DALLAS, TX12
- NEW YORK, NY10
- LOS ANGELES, CA8
- BOSTON, MA8
- COLUMBUS, OH7
- SAN ANTONIO, TX7
- AUSTIN, TX7
- SAN DIEGO, CA6
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Surgery of the Hand (Plastic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Plastic Surgery Physician | 175 | 34.2% |
| Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Physician | 47 | 9.2% |
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 26 | 5.1% |
| Plastic Surgery Within the Head and Neck (Plastic Surgery) Physician | 23 | 4.5% |
| Orthopaedic Hand Surgery Physician | 23 | 4.5% |
| Surgery of the Hand (Surgery) Physician | 21 | 4.1% |
| Orthopaedic Surgery Physician | 16 | 3.1% |
| Surgery Physician | 14 | 2.7% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Plastic Surgery.
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.