Pharmacy providers as a group are made up primarily of business entities and/or provider groups. Generally, the Pharmacy specialty is fairly evenly split between males and females with 58% of providers reporting their gender as male and 41% reporting as female. People living in Texas, Florida, California, New York, and Pennsylvania enjoy living in one of the 5 most popular states/territories where Pharmacy providers practice. In all, there are 57,057 registered Pharmacy providers in the United States with over 4,495 of those located in Texas alone while around 4,430 chose to practice in Florida.
Pharmacy providers have been assigned the 333600000X taxonomy code in the NPI registry, which is a Level II Classification. Click here for more information about medical specialty types.
Overall, Pharmacy specialists practice in 58 different states/territories and can be categorized into 10 different Pharmacy sub-specialties: Clinic Pharmacy, Community/Retail Pharmacy, Compounding Pharmacy, Home Infusion Therapy Pharmacy, Institutional Pharmacy, Long Term Care Pharmacy, Mail Order Pharmacy, Managed Care Organization Pharmacy, Nuclear Pharmacy, and Specialty Pharmacy.
A facility used by pharmacists for the compounding and dispensing of medicinal preparations and other associated professional and administrative services. A pharmacy is a facility whose primary function is to store, prepare and legally dispense prescription drugs under the professional supervision of a licensed pharmacist. It meets any licensing or certification standards set forth by the jurisdiction where it is located.