Veterinarian
1,719 active US providers register Veterinarian as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.02% of every provider in the registry, and the 313th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 174M00000X
- Grouping
- Other Service Providers
- Classification
- Veterinarian
- Active providers
- 1,719
- States covered
- 47 of 51
What the code means
A doctor of veterinary medicine, trained and authorized to practice veterinarian medicine and surgery.
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 Jersey | 160 | |
| California | 127 | |
| New York | 110 | |
| Florida | 105 | |
| Massachusetts | 101 | |
| Illinois | 89 | |
| Washington | 83 | |
| Colorado | 69 | |
| Arizona | 66 | |
| Wisconsin | 57 | |
| Texas | 45 | |
| Pennsylvania | 44 | |
| Utah | 41 | |
| Oregon | 40 | |
| Ohio | 37 |
Showing the 15 largest of 47 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
1,649 of these are people and 70 are organisations, so 4% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2013, and 101 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.
- WOBURN, MA33
- PHILADELPHIA, PA25
- NEW YORK, NY25
- PHOENIX, AZ20
- NORTH ANDOVER, MA20
- LOUISVILLE, KY18
- LONGMONT, CO16
- VANCOUVER, WA15
- CORVALLIS, OR14
- DOWNERS GROVE, IL13
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Veterinarian 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Research Veterinarian | 5 | 0.3% |
| Specialist | 3 | 0.2% |
| Special Hospital | 2 | 0.1% |
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.