Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Physician: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

What this specialty covers

A surgeon who specializes in plastic and reconstructive surgery.

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, the 20.6% share means that 748 of the active records are flagged as sole proprietors in NPPES; it does not mean that 20.6% of all plastic and reconstructive surgery physicians are in private practice. The sole-proprietor flag is a self-reported NPPES field and an imperfect proxy for private practice because it does not fully capture ownership, employment, affiliations, or practice structure.

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 is an administrative registry; active NPI counts do not measure clinical volume or patient care.
• - The count includes records with this taxonomy reported as primary, so providers with another primary taxonomy may be outside the total.
• 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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