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New Interactive Tool Maps US Surgeon Supply

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A new study and a companion interactive tool developed by the Program on Health Workforce Research and Policy with funding from the American College of Surgeons maps surgeons and surgical facilities across 12 specialties for any county, hospital referral region, or metropolitan/micropolitan area in the country.

The study and interactive tool use surgeon location data from the April 2025 National Plan and Provider Enumeration System, a federal registry of clinicians with National Provider Identifiers. Facility locations were drawn from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services data. Patients, clinicians, and policymakers direct have direct access to data that can be filtered by specialty, switch between counties, hospital referral regions, and metropolitan/micropolitan areas, overlay hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers, and download maps for use in reports and presentations. Data can be viewed through the interactive map, data tables, or static map images with facility and geographic overlays.

Key findings

  • 30% of 3,144 the total US counties had no identified surgeon – representing 9.6 million residents; 38% had no general surgeon (see Figure)
  • 4.3% of the 11,000 hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers (including 434 Critical Access Hospitals) were in counties with no identified surgeon
  • National supply was 59.2 surgeons per 100,000 population, but hospital referral region supply ranged from 20.8 to 250.4 per 100k

Data can be viewed through the interactive map, data tables, or static map images with facility and geographic overlays. The tool gives patients, clinicians, and policymakers direct access to county-level data, allowing hospital boards, residency program directors, state legislators, congressional staffers, and patients to look up, compare, and download surgical workforce data for any county, referral region, or metropolitan/micropolitan area in the country.

General Surgeons per 100,000 Population by County, 2025

County level national map displaying supply of general surgeons - a total of 37,777 individuals at a rate of 11.0 per 100,000 population.