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

National totals

What this specialty covers

A surgeon with expertise in the management of surgical disorders of the blood vessels, excluding the intracranial vessels or the heart.

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, 840 records, or 13.1%, are flagged as sole proprietors in NPPES. That field is self-reported and describes an NPI registration status, so it is an imperfect proxy for private practice: it does not by itself show whether a vascular surgeon owns a practice, works independently, or is employed by a hospital or group.

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.
• Counts represent active NPI records with this primary taxonomy, not a direct census of unique practicing physicians.
• First-enumeration totals count NPIs first enumerated in each year, not necessarily new physicians or currently active clinicians.
• 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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