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

National totals

What this specialty covers

Interventional Pain Medicine is the discipline of medicine devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of pain and related disorders principally with the application of interventional techniques in managing subacute, chronic, persistent, and intractable pain, independently or in conjunction with other modalities of treatment.

Reading the sole-proprietor share

Within this specialty's active records, 401, or 10.5%, are flagged as sole proprietors in NPPES. Because this is a self-reported NPPES field, it is an imperfect proxy for private practice and may not describe actual ownership, employment, or affiliation.

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.
• - NPI records are administrative identifiers and may not equal unique physicians, organizations, or operating locations.
• - The count includes active records with this taxonomy as the primary classification, so providers with another primary taxonomy may not be included.
• - An NPI's first-enumeration year indicates when the identifier was issued, not necessarily when the physician began practicing interventional pain medicine.
• 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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