Surgery of the Hand (Surgery) Physician
660 active US providers register Surgery of the Hand (Surgery) Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.01% of every provider in the registry, and the 437th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 2086S0105X
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Surgery
- Specialization
- Surgery of the Hand
- Active providers
- 660
- States covered
- 47 of 51
What the code means
A surgeon with expertise 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 | 67 | |
| Florida | 58 | |
| California | 53 | |
| Michigan | 47 | |
| Arizona | 33 | |
| Kentucky | 29 | |
| Massachusetts | 26 | |
| New York | 26 | |
| Missouri | 24 | |
| Ohio | 20 | |
| Minnesota | 19 | |
| Oklahoma | 17 | |
| Illinois | 17 | |
| South Carolina | 17 | |
| New Jersey | 17 |
Showing the 15 largest of 47 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
483 of these are people and 177 are organisations, so 27% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2007, and 37 registered in the last five years, 6% 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.
- LOUISVILLE, KY27
- PHOENIX, AZ22
- ROCHESTER, MN16
- SAINT LOUIS, MO13
- GRAND RAPIDS, MI10
- AUSTIN, TX9
- DALLAS, TX9
- HENDERSON, NV9
- SAN ANTONIO, TX8
- HOUSTON, TX7
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Surgery of the Hand (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 Hand Surgery Physician | 98 | 14.8% |
| Surgery Physician | 95 | 14.4% |
| Orthopaedic Surgery Physician | 93 | 14.1% |
| Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Physician | 37 | 5.6% |
| Plastic Surgery Physician | 24 | 3.6% |
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 22 | 3.3% |
| Surgery of the Hand (Plastic Surgery) Physician | 10 | 1.5% |
| Specialist | 9 | 1.4% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Surgery.
- Trauma Surgery Physician1,636
- Pediatric Surgery Physician1,708
- Surgical Critical Care Physician2,084
- Surgical Oncology Physician2,396
- Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Physician4,481
- Vascular Surgery Physician7,657
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.