Surgical Physician Assistant
18,831 active US providers register Surgical Physician Assistant as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.2% of every provider in the registry, and the 83rd largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 363AS0400X
- Grouping
- Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers
- Classification
- Physician Assistant
- Specialization
- Surgical
- Active providers
- 18,831
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
Definition to come...
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 |
|---|---|---|
| New York | 2,187 | |
| Texas | 1,879 | |
| Florida | 1,623 | |
| California | 1,127 | |
| Pennsylvania | 838 | |
| Connecticut | 813 | |
| Colorado | 751 | |
| Illinois | 646 | |
| Georgia | 633 | |
| Washington | 623 | |
| New Jersey | 587 | |
| Arizona | 530 | |
| Massachusetts | 523 | |
| Maryland | 421 | |
| Ohio | 403 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
17,415 of these are people and 1,416 are organisations, so 8% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2012, and 3,228 registered in the last five years, 17% of the current population.
That is close to the pace of the registry as a whole.
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, TX488
- NEW YORK, NY453
- PITTSBURGH, PA240
- AURORA, CO236
- HARTFORD, CT207
- ORLANDO, FL198
- PORTLAND, OR173
- BROOKLYN, NY171
- DALLAS, TX168
- BALTIMORE, MD157
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Surgical Physician Assistant 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Physician Assistant | 4,286 | 22.8% |
| Medical Physician Assistant | 1,346 | 7.1% |
| Surgical Assistant | 400 | 2.1% |
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 317 | 1.7% |
| Athletic Trainer | 122 | 0.6% |
| Surgical Technologist | 95 | 0.5% |
| Surgery Physician | 68 | 0.4% |
| Orthopaedic Surgery Physician | 44 | 0.2% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Physician Assistant.
- Medical Physician Assistant39,990
- Physician Assistant164,808
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.