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Maps

Our doctor maps show where doctors practice, what they prescribe and how much drug companies pay them, for every state and county. Each map uses public federal data. It works on phones, and you can switch to a table or download the numbers.

What the doctor maps show

  • Doctors per capita: physicians and other clinicians per 100,000 residents, for more than 100 specialties.
  • Prescribing: Medicare prescriptions per 1,000 residents aged 65 and over, for single drugs and drug groups.
  • Industry payments: money that drug and device companies paid clinicians, per resident.
  • Doctor age and shortages: where physicians are near retirement, and where residents live in federal shortage areas.
  • Disability: how many people have each type of disability, and how many matching specialists serve them.

How to read the doctor maps

First, choose a specialty, drug or measure in the menu. Then pick counties or states, and a rate or a total. Darker areas have more. Hatched areas have none, or no data. For example, a rural county with no psychiatrist shows hatching on the psychiatry map.

Select a state to zoom in and compare its counties. Select a county to see its rank, its population and how it compares with the state and the country. In addition, every map has a table view, a CSV download, a saved image and a share link.

Where the numbers come from

Clinician counts come from the CMS NPI Registry (opens in a new tab), placed by practice address. Populations come from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (opens in a new tab). Prescribing and payment data come from Medicare Part D and CMS Open Payments. Because every map uses the same counts, a number on one page matches the same number everywhere else on the site. Our methodology explains each step.

Related: doctors per capita by county, psychiatrist shortage by county, GLP-1 prescriptions by state.

Questions about the doctor maps

Can I use the doctor maps in a report or article? Yes. Each map has a Save image button that stamps the source and link on the picture. You can also download the numbers as a CSV file. Please credit contact.doctor and the original government source.

Why does my county show no doctors of a specialty? We place each clinician at the practice address in the NPI Registry. So a county can have no listed specialist even if one visits part-time. In that case, check the nearby counties on the map.