contact.doctor is a free, independent guide to the U.S. health-care workforce: every licensed doctor and clinician, the hospitals and medical groups where they work, the drugs they prescribe and the payments they receive, built entirely from public government data and shown on maps anyone can read.
Why we built contact.doctor
The federal government publishes a remarkable amount of information about health care: who is licensed to practice, where they work, what Medicare pays for, which drugs are prescribed, what drug and device makers pay clinicians, where there are too few doctors. But it is scattered across dozens of datasets, each with its own codes and caveats. We bring those records together, match them by each clinician’s National Provider Identifier (NPI), and turn them into pages, maps and plain-language explanations, so patients, students, clinicians, journalists and researchers can find answers in seconds instead of weeks.
What you can do here
- Find a doctor by specialty, name and place, and see each clinician’s practice address, specialties, state licenses, Medicare activity and industry payments. Search the directory.
- Explore maps of doctors per person, prescribing, payments, doctor age, disability and shortage areas, down to the county. See the maps.
- Look up places: hospitals with their quality ratings and clinicians, medical groups, medical schools and where their graduates work.
- Understand drugs: the most-prescribed Medicare drugs, who prescribes them, what they cost, recalls, shortages and what the pills look like.
- Plan a career: compare specialties by size, training length and Medicare workload, and read our guides to residency, fellowship and physician pay in Learn.
Where the data comes from
Everything comes from public sources, including the CMS NPI Registry (NPPES), Medicare Care Compare, Medicare claims summaries (Part D prescribing and physician services), CMS Open Payments, the CMS Physician Fee Schedule, hospital cost reports, HRSA shortage-area designations, the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, the FDA and DailyMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, OpenAlex, and state licensing boards. Each page names its sources and the date of the data. We refresh the main datasets monthly or as soon as agencies publish new releases. Our methodology explains exactly how records are matched, counted and mapped, and what the data can’t tell you.
How contact.doctor works
- The same number everywhere. A figure on a map, a page and an article is calculated the same way, from the same data.
- No made-up numbers. If something is an estimate or a sample, we say so.
- Neutral about people. Public records describe professional activity; they are not judgments. An industry payment is not evidence of wrongdoing, and a count is not a quality rating.
- Accessible to everyone. Every map has the same numbers in a table, and every page works without JavaScript. See our accessibility statement.
- Privacy first. Ads from Google help pay for the site, but advertisers never influence our data or articles, and we never give them what you look up here. You can turn off personalized ads and analytics on our privacy choices page. See our privacy policy.
Independent
contact.doctor is not affiliated with CMS, HHS, the FDA, the American Medical Association, any licensing board, or any clinician, hospital, practice or company we list. No one pays to appear, to be ranked, or to change what we show.
Corrections
Public data contains errors, and so can our processing. If you see something wrong, especially in your own listing, please tell us. Most details (address, phone, specialty) come from the NPI Registry, so updating your NPPES record fixes it at the source; we’ll check our side too.
Not medical advice
contact.doctor is for information only. It isn’t a medical provider, a referral service or a verification service. Read our medical and data disclaimer. In an emergency, call 911. In a mental health crisis, call or text 988.
Stay in touch
Our main sources are the CMS NPI Registry (opens in a new tab), CMS data (opens in a new tab) (Medicare, Part D and Open Payments) and the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (opens in a new tab).