What seven million providers look like when you stand back.
Experiments, maps and oddities built from the federal provider registry. Every one shows its working and links to the query behind it.
The nurse practitioner takeover
Psychiatric nurse practitioners now outnumber psychiatrists. It took about eight years.
47% NP AccessAmerica's psychiatrist deserts
Per head of population, the best covered state has several times the psychiatric workforce of the worst.
5× gap OdditiesThe most crowded addresses in American medicine
Single street addresses where hundreds of clinicians are registered.
34,731 at one address WorkforceThe decline of the solo practice
Sole-proprietor registration by the year a provider joined the registry.
29.9% → 31.3% OdditiesSurname atlas
The most common surnames in American medicine, and how they differ by specialty.
Smith, 48,620 WorkforceThe clinicians licensed in the most states
Telehealth needs a licence in every state a patient sits in. Some people collect them.
15 states WorkforcePhysicians on H-1B visas
Where sponsorship happens, what it pays, and why the rural figure is an undercount.
NY leads with 9.85% of filings CompensationMedical salaries
What physicians earn by specialty, state and metro, with a grade on every figure.
2025: Cardiology leads at $499k TrainingWhich schools produce which specialties
Follow a million clinicians back to where they trained.
8,195 from WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AccessWho actually offers telehealth
The gap between states is wider than the gap between specialties.
21% nationally WorkforceThe retirement cliff
Specialties where a large share of the workforce qualified before 1995.
40.1% pre-1995Nothing in that category yet.