Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) Physician
8,054 active US providers register Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.09% of every provider in the registry, and the 151st largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 208G00000X
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery)
- Active providers
- 8,054
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
A thoracic surgeon provides the operative, perioperative and critical care of patients with pathologic conditions within the chest. Included is the surgical care of coronary artery disease, cancers of the lung, esophagus and chest wall, abnormalities of the trachea, abnormalities of the great vessels and heart valves, congenital anomalies, tumors of the mediastinum and diseases of the diaphragm. The management of the airway and injuries of the chest is within the scope of the specialty.
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 | 818 | |
| Florida | 634 | |
| Texas | 605 | |
| New York | 541 | |
| Pennsylvania | 467 | |
| Ohio | 369 | |
| Illinois | 320 | |
| Michigan | 289 | |
| Massachusetts | 240 | |
| New Jersey | 214 | |
| Maryland | 201 | |
| North Carolina | 201 | |
| Georgia | 190 | |
| Indiana | 183 | |
| Missouri | 172 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
6,332 of these are people and 1,722 are organisations, so 21% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2007, and 519 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.
- NEW YORK, NY188
- HOUSTON, TX149
- BOSTON, MA140
- CHICAGO, IL130
- PHILADELPHIA, PA128
- LOS ANGELES, CA119
- CLEVELAND, OH112
- ROCHESTER, MN92
- PITTSBURGH, PA87
- ATLANTA, GA78
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Surgery Physician | 1,372 | 17.0% |
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 388 | 4.8% |
| Vascular Surgery Physician | 380 | 4.7% |
| Specialist | 107 | 1.3% |
| Cardiovascular Disease Physician | 88 | 1.1% |
| Surgical Critical Care Physician | 71 | 0.9% |
| Transplant Surgery Physician | 64 | 0.8% |
| Pediatric Surgery Physician | 50 | 0.6% |
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.