Occupational Medicine Physician: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

What this specialty covers

Occupational medicine focuses on the health of workers, including the ability to perform work; the physical, chemical, biological, and social environments of the workplace; and the health outcomes of environmental exposures. Practitioners in this field address the promotion of health in the work place, and the prevention and management of occupational and environmental injury, illness, and disability.

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, 565 active records, or 18.8%, carry the NPPES sole-proprietor flag. Because that field is self-reported, it is an imperfect proxy for private practice and does not by itself show ownership, employment arrangement, independence, or how much occupational medicine a provider delivers.

By state

New NPI registrations by year

Counts reflect the year each NPI was first issued, among records still active today. The final year is partial: this data covers through 2026-01-11.

Data notes

• The sole-proprietor field is self-reported by the provider in NPPES and is an imperfect proxy for private practice.
• A sole-proprietor count shown as <11 is suppressed: the true value is below 11, which could include zero.
• - NPPES records are administrative records and may not represent every clinician who provides occupational medicine.
• - Providers may have additional taxonomies, and the primary taxonomy does not measure service volume, work effort, or patient demand.
• Providers are counted once, by their primary taxonomy code only.

Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) Data Dissemination file, FOIA-disclosable public data under CMS-6060-N. Aggregated by Hero EMR on 2026-08-03; deactivated NPIs excluded; specialty assigned from the primary taxonomy code (NUCC 25.1). Counts below 11 are suppressed. Individual providers are never published. All provider data pages.

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