Licensed, active and employed US physicians compared, with register counts by state.
Physician email list
The Bureau of Labor Statistics counts 246,639 private offices of physicians with employees (QCEW, fourth quarter of 2025, NAICS 6211). The CMS NPPES register (file of 2026-09-14) lists ~483,000 registered practice addresses of MD and DO physicians (taxonomy codes starting 207 or 208), including stale and duplicate ones, so it is an upper bound. ~259,000 of those addresses have a record updated or added in the last 5 years. Many are hospital, clinic or group sites rather than one-doctor offices. Each row of the list is one practice location, with the email it publishes, the page where we found it and the date we last verified it. You can order it now, nationwide or by state.
What's in the list
| Column | What it holds | Format |
|---|---|---|
| practice_name, dba | Legal and trading names | text |
| address, city, state, zip, county | Practice location | text; state as 2 letters, ZIP as 5 digits |
| phone | Main number the practice publishes | text |
| website | The practice's own site, or the group's page for that location | URL |
| email, email_type | An email the practice publishes on its own site, marked role (info@, frontdesk@) or personal (a named inbox at the practice's own domain). No free-mail addresses | email address; type is role or personal |
| email_status | valid, catch-all or unknown. Catch-all means the mailbox can't be confirmed; invalid emails are removed | valid, catch-all or unknown |
| email_source_url | The page or official register where the email was published | URL |
| email_last_verified | Date of the latest verification check | date, ISO 8601 (year-month-day) |
| specialty | The specialties registered at the address, from the NUCC taxonomy (family medicine, cardiology, dermatology and so on) | one of a fixed list of specialties (NUCC taxonomy) |
| physicians_at_location | Number of physicians with an active NPI at this address | whole number |
| group_affiliation | Health system or medical group name where public evidence shows one (blank when unknown) | text; blank when unknown |
| npi, source_last_updated | The practice's NPI and when NPPES last changed the record | 10-digit NPI; date, ISO 8601 (year-month-day) |
One row per physician practice location in the 50 states and DC.
The data dictionary in every download describes each column in full.
In the public register
Registered practice addresses in the register~483,000
Rounded count in CMS NPPES, file of 2026-09-14. It is an upper bound: registers keep closed and duplicate entries, which our checks remove.
States and DC51
States plus DC with at least one entry in the register.
Register file date2026-09-14
The date of the public file we counted.
Registered physician addresses by state
California has the most registered physician addresses, followed by Florida, Texas and New York. Per resident, the District of Columbia, Maryland and Florida rank highest. Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota and Wisconsin rank lowest. A likely reason is that large health systems employ many of the doctors there and register them at a few shared sites, which produces fewer addresses. Use this table to size a state before you order it.
| State | In the public register | Per 100,000 residents | Share of US total |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | ~53,000 | 135.5 | 11% |
| Florida | ~45,000 | 189.7 | 9.2% |
| Texas | ~42,000 | 131.9 | 8.7% |
| New York | ~37,000 | 183.2 | 7.6% |
| Pennsylvania | ~20,000 | 150.1 | 4.1% |
| Illinois | ~18,000 | 138.3 | 3.7% |
| New Jersey | ~17,000 | 180.0 | 3.6% |
| Georgia | ~16,000 | 137.1 | 3.2% |
| Michigan | ~15,000 | 148.8 | 3.1% |
| Ohio | ~15,000 | 125.9 | 3.1% |
| North Carolina | ~14,000 | 127.3 | 3% |
| Maryland | ~13,000 | 200.9 | 2.6% |
| Virginia | ~12,000 | 133.9 | 2.5% |
| Arizona | ~12,000 | 152.2 | 2.4% |
| Massachusetts | ~10,000 | 143.8 | 2.1% |
| Tennessee | ~9,400 | 128.4 | 2% |
| Colorado | ~9,000 | 148.9 | 1.9% |
| Washington | ~8,700 | 109.0 | 1.8% |
| Indiana | ~8,400 | 119.8 | 1.7% |
| Missouri | ~7,300 | 116.4 | 1.5% |
| South Carolina | ~7,100 | 128.2 | 1.5% |
| Louisiana | ~6,900 | 149.4 | 1.4% |
| Alabama | ~6,400 | 122.6 | 1.3% |
| Kentucky | ~6,300 | 135.7 | 1.3% |
| Connecticut | ~5,800 | 156.8 | 1.2% |
| Oklahoma | ~5,600 | 134.8 | 1.2% |
| Wisconsin | ~5,200 | 87.5 | 1.1% |
| Oregon | ~5,100 | 118.9 | 1.1% |
| Nevada | ~4,900 | 148.0 | 1% |
| Minnesota | ~4,300 | 74.3 | 0.9% |
| Arkansas | ~4,200 | 134.3 | 0.87% |
| Utah | ~4,000 | 114.0 | 0.84% |
| Mississippi | ~3,600 | 121.5 | 0.74% |
| Kansas | ~3,500 | 117.6 | 0.73% |
| New Mexico | ~3,300 | 155.0 | 0.68% |
| West Virginia | ~2,800 | 157.9 | 0.58% |
| Iowa | ~2,700 | 84.9 | 0.57% |
| Idaho | ~2,400 | 117.1 | 0.49% |
| Nebraska | ~2,300 | 112.8 | 0.47% |
| Hawaii | ~2,100 | 149.8 | 0.44% |
| Maine | ~2,000 | 139.6 | 0.41% |
| District of Columbia | ~1,800 | 262.7 | 0.38% |
| Delaware | ~1,800 | 170.0 | 0.37% |
| New Hampshire | ~1,600 | 111.4 | 0.33% |
| Rhode Island | ~1,500 | 131.0 | 0.3% |
| Montana | ~1,400 | 122.4 | 0.29% |
| Alaska | ~1,200 | 160.3 | 0.24% |
| Vermont | ~980 | 151.7 | 0.2% |
| South Dakota | ~960 | 102.8 | 0.2% |
| Wyoming | ~870 | 147.6 | 0.18% |
| North Dakota | ~680 | 85.3 | 0.14% |
Counts are rounded.
These are register counts, rounded. The list will hold fewer rows, because our checks remove closed and duplicate entries.
By specialty
Family medicine and internal medicine are the two largest specialties in the register, with pediatrics, emergency medicine and anesthesiology next. The counts below are individual physicians by the specialty they flagged as primary, not practices: a multispecialty clinic holds many specialties at one address. Emergency physicians, anesthesiologists and hospitalists mostly work inside hospitals, so they reach a practice list only through their group.
| Specialty | Individuals |
|---|---|
| Family Medicine Physician | ~156,000 |
| Internal Medicine Physician | ~149,000 |
| Pediatrics Physician | ~74,000 |
| Emergency Medicine Physician | ~71,000 |
| Anesthesiology Physician | ~61,000 |
| Psychiatry Physician | ~58,000 |
| Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician | ~46,000 |
| Diagnostic Radiology Physician | ~44,000 |
| Surgery Physician | ~34,000 |
| Hospitalist Physician | ~28,000 |
| Cardiovascular Disease Physician | ~27,000 |
| Orthopaedic Surgery Physician | ~25,000 |
| Ophthalmology Physician | ~23,000 |
| Neurology Physician | ~22,000 |
| Gastroenterology Physician | ~21,000 |
Counts are rounded.
Seven specialties have their own pages: the cardiologist, oncologist, pediatrician, dermatologist, neurologist, urologist and radiologist email lists.
Free sample
Leave your email. Our first email asks you to confirm your address, then we send you 25 rows from this list, usually within one business day.
How delivery works
Checkout
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Update and verify
We update your list from the latest public sources and verify its emails, so you receive a fresh list.
Checks
We remove everyone on our suppression list and check the file before it goes out.
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Where the data comes from
The list starts from the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), the federal register of healthcare providers, file of 2026-09-14. We group MD and DO registrations by practice address, match each location to its own website or its group's location page, and record the emails and phone numbers published there, with the page URL. We check each email with the receiving mail server and leave out locations we can't confirm as current.
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Questions about the physician list
Can I buy the physician list now?
Yes. Choose nationwide or up to 10 states in the order panel on this page. It costs $799 nationwide, and state files start from $59. Delivered within 24 hours, usually much sooner. Nationwide files are verified and sent within 48 hours.
How many doctors are in the US?
The AAMC counted 1,032,365 active physicians in 2024. NPPES holds more individual MD and DO registrations, because physicians keep their numbers after they retire. The doctor statistics page compares the licensed, active and employed counts and gives the register figures by state.
Does the list include hospital-employed physicians?
Rows will be practice locations, not people. A physician employed by a hospital or a medical group will appear through the site where they see patients, under that site's name, phone and published email. The list will have no column of physicians' names. The physicians_at_location column will give the number of physicians registered at the address without naming them.
Can I filter by specialty?
Yes. Every row will carry the specialties registered at the address, so you can keep cardiology or pediatric practices and drop the rest. Seven specialties also have separate lists: the cardiologist, oncologist, pediatrician, dermatologist, neurologist, urologist and radiologist email lists.
Is this a list of doctors' personal emails?
No. We will collect only emails a practice publishes on its own website, such as a front-desk or office inbox. Some will be named inboxes at the practice's domain, as the practice lists them. We never guess addresses from a name pattern, and we leave out free-mail accounts.
Can I send email to physician practices legally?
In the US, CAN-SPAM allows commercial email to businesses if you identify yourself, include a postal address and an opt-out, and honor opt-outs. This is general information, not legal advice. Read is buying an email list legal?
Sources
- CMS, NPPES Data Dissemination V.2, file of 2026-09-14, taxonomy codes 207* and 208* (allopathic and osteopathic physicians), https://download.cms.gov/nppes/NPI_Files.html (accessed 2026-10-03)
- BLS, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025 Q4, NAICS 6211 Offices of physicians, private establishments, https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/4/industry/6211.csv (accessed 2026-10-03)
- AAMC, U.S. Physician Workforce Data Dashboard, 2025 Key Findings (data year 2024), https://www.aamc.org/data-reports/data/2025-key-findings (accessed 2026-10-03)