Trauma Surgery Physician
1,636 active US providers register Trauma Surgery Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.02% of every provider in the registry, and the 320th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 2086S0127X
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Surgery
- Specialization
- Trauma Surgery
- Active providers
- 1,636
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
Trauma surgery is a recognized subspecialty of general surgery. Trauma surgeons are physicians who have completed a five-year general surgery residency and usually continue with a one to two year fellowship in trauma and/or surgical critical care, typically leading to additional board certification in surgical critical care. There is no trauma surgery board certification at this point. To obtain board certification in surgical critical care, a fellowship in surgical critical care or anesthesiology critical care must be completed during or after general surgery residency.
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 | 208 | |
| Texas | 159 | |
| Florida | 131 | |
| Pennsylvania | 101 | |
| New York | 80 | |
| Ohio | 72 | |
| Illinois | 64 | |
| New Jersey | 56 | |
| Wisconsin | 53 | |
| Tennessee | 51 | |
| Colorado | 51 | |
| Arizona | 43 | |
| Missouri | 43 | |
| Maryland | 43 | |
| Washington | 42 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
1,368 of these are people and 268 are organisations, so 16% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2009, and 81 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.
- NASHVILLE, TN33
- CHICAGO, IL29
- DALLAS, TX26
- MADISON, WI25
- BALTIMORE, MD24
- PHILADELPHIA, PA24
- AURORA, CO24
- COLUMBUS, OH24
- PHOENIX, AZ20
- SAN DIEGO, CA20
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Trauma 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 | 861 | 52.6% |
| Surgical Critical Care Physician | 557 | 34.0% |
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 134 | 8.2% |
| Vascular Surgery Physician | 20 | 1.2% |
| Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician | 16 | 1.0% |
| Emergency Medicine Physician | 13 | 0.8% |
| General Practice Physician | 12 | 0.7% |
| Military Health Care Provider | 8 | 0.5% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Surgery.
- Pediatric Surgery Physician1,708
- Surgical Critical Care Physician2,084
- Surgical Oncology Physician2,396
- 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.