Legal Medicine: NPI taxonomy code 173000000X
Taxonomy code 173000000X is Legal Medicine, in the Other Service Providers group.
1,847 active NPIs list it as their primary specialty (<0.1% of all).
| Code | 173000000X |
|---|---|
| Group | Other Service Providers |
| Classification | Legal Medicine |
| Used for | individual providers (the code is in NUCC's Individual section) |
| Active NPIs, primary specialty | 1,847 (748 individuals, 1,099 organizations) |
What NUCC says: The specialty areas of medicine concerned with matters of, and relations with, substantive law and legal institutions; such as the conduct of medical examinations at crime scenes, performance of autopsies, giving of expert medical testimony in judicial proceedings, medical treatment of inmates of… (excerpt of the NUCC 26.1 definition)
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Where they are
| State | Active NPIs | Share |
|---|---|---|
| New York | 313 | 16.9% |
| Florida | 227 | 12.3% |
| California | 216 | 11.7% |
| Texas | 102 | 5.5% |
| New Jersey | 78 | 4.2% |
| Illinois | 78 | 4.2% |
| Michigan | 59 | 3.2% |
| Georgia | 58 | 3.1% |
| Pennsylvania | 52 | 2.8% |
| North Carolina | 49 | 2.7% |
Top states by practice location, from the NPPES file of September 13, 2026.
Related specialties
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