Surgical Critical Care Physician
2,084 active US providers register Surgical Critical Care Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.02% of every provider in the registry, and the 285th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 2086S0102X
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Surgery
- Specialization
- Surgical Critical Care
- Active providers
- 2,084
- States covered
- 50 of 51
What the code means
A surgeon with expertise in the management of the critically ill and postoperative patient, particularly the trauma victim, who specializes in critical care medicine diagnoses, treats and supports patients with multiple organ dysfunction. This specialist may have administrative responsibilities for intensive care units and may also facilitate and coordinate patient care among the primary physician, the critical care staff and other specialists.
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 | 183 | |
| New York | 169 | |
| Florida | 165 | |
| Pennsylvania | 159 | |
| Texas | 127 | |
| Ohio | 96 | |
| Michigan | 94 | |
| Illinois | 73 | |
| Virginia | 64 | |
| Massachusetts | 63 | |
| New Jersey | 58 | |
| Arizona | 58 | |
| Georgia | 55 | |
| Missouri | 47 | |
| North Carolina | 45 |
Showing the 15 largest of 50 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
1,924 of these are people and 160 are organisations, so 8% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2009, and 74 registered in the last five years, 4% 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, NY37
- LOS ANGELES, CA35
- CHICAGO, IL33
- PHOENIX, AZ32
- PHILADELPHIA, PA31
- COLUMBUS, OH31
- BOSTON, MA28
- SAINT LOUIS, MO26
- HOUSTON, TX26
- PITTSBURGH, PA24
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Surgical Critical Care 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Surgery Physician | 1,334 | 64.0% |
| Trauma Surgery Physician | 464 | 22.3% |
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 211 | 10.1% |
| Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician | 47 | 2.3% |
| Emergency Medicine Physician | 39 | 1.9% |
| Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) Physician | 34 | 1.6% |
| Pediatric Surgery Physician | 17 | 0.8% |
| Specialist | 16 | 0.8% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Surgery.
- Surgical Oncology Physician2,396
- Pediatric Surgery Physician1,708
- Trauma Surgery Physician1,636
- Surgery of the Hand (Surgery) Physician660
- 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.