Doctors in Alaska: 1,846 enrolled in Medicare
Alaska has 1,846 MD and DO clinicians enrolled in Medicare in the CMS file dated Aug 18, 2026: 249 per 100,000 residents, 10th of 51 (the states and DC), against 214 for the US. The most are in Anchorage, 828 in our physician files. Per capita Alaska is strongest in family physicians (1st, 57.6 per 100,000), orthopedic surgeons (1st, 13.1 per 100,000), general surgeons (2nd, 11.2 per 100,000) and optometrists (3rd, 19.7 per 100,000).
By Ryan Doyle, founder of Doctor Email List. Published Oct 5, 2026.
Alaska physicians by specialty
Every specialty with at least one clinician in Alaska, largest first. Rank is among the states and DC (51 in all) by clinicians per 100,000 residents. Where we have a state page or a list for the specialty, the name links to it.
| Specialty | Alaska | Per 100,000 | Rank | US per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nurse Practitioners | 727 | 98.2 | 24th | 83.7 |
| Physician Assistants | 542 | 73.2 | 4th | 40.8 |
| Family Physicians | 426 | 57.6 | 1st | 28.7 |
| Chiropractors | 187 | 25.3 | 8th | 11.8 |
| Emergency Physicians | 154 | 20.8 | 4th | 13.5 |
| Internal Medicine Physicians | 148 | 20.0 | 44th | 30.9 |
| Optometrists | 146 | 19.7 | 3rd | 10.9 |
| Anesthesiologists | 118 | 15.9 | 10th | 13.3 |
| Radiologists | 98 | 13.2 | 8th | 11.1 |
| OB/GYNs | 98 | 13.2 | 5th | 10.1 |
| Orthopedic Surgeons | 97 | 13.1 | 1st | 7.4 |
| Psychiatrists | 93 | 12.6 | 7th | 8.4 |
| General Surgeons | 83 | 11.2 | 2nd | 6.9 |
| Hospitalists | 69 | 9.3 | 17th | 7.1 |
| Pathologists | 43 | 5.8 | 6th | 3.8 |
| Cardiologists | 40 | 5.4 | 48th | 8.7 |
| Ophthalmologists | 33 | 4.5 | 32nd | 5.3 |
| Neurologists | 31 | 4.2 | 42nd | 5.5 |
| Oncologists | 31 | 4.2 | 35th | 5.0 |
| Pediatricians | 31 | 4.2 | 21st | 3.8 |
| ENTs | 31 | 4.2 | 2nd | 2.9 |
| Podiatrists | 24 | 3.2 | 37th | 4.7 |
| Dermatologists | 23 | 3.1 | 35th | 4.0 |
| Urologists | 23 | 3.1 | 23rd | 3.0 |
| Gastroenterologists | 20 | 2.7 | 48th | 4.7 |
| Osteopathic manipulative medicine physicians | 18 | 2.4 | 2nd | 0.3 |
| Physiatrists | 17 | 2.3 | 27th | 2.7 |
| Neurosurgeons | 16 | 2.2 | 6th | 1.7 |
| Nephrologists | 15 | 2.0 | 43rd | 2.9 |
| Radiation Oncologists | 14 | 1.9 | 9th | 1.6 |
| Critical care physicians | 10 | 1.4 | 29th | 1.8 |
| Pain Management Physicians | 10 | 1.4 | 21st | 1.4 |
| Allergists | 10 | 1.4 | 7th | 1.1 |
| Pulmonologists | 9 | 1.2 | 51st | 3.4 |
| Infectious Disease Physicians | 9 | 1.2 | 46th | 2.1 |
| General practice physicians | 9 | 1.2 | 9th | 1.2 |
| Vascular Surgeons | 9 | 1.2 | 21st | 1.2 |
| Rheumatologists | 8 | 1.1 | 46th | 1.6 |
| Plastic Surgeons | 7 | 0.9 | 46th | 1.4 |
| Hospice and palliative care physicians | 6 | 0.8 | 14th | 0.7 |
| Endocrinologists | 5 | 0.7 | 50th | 2.1 |
| Cardiothoracic Surgeons | 5 | 0.7 | 51st | 1.2 |
| Addiction medicine physicians | 5 | 0.7 | 1st | 0.2 |
| Sports medicine physicians | 2 | 0.3 | 50th | 0.7 |
| Colorectal surgeons | 2 | 0.3 | 45th | 0.5 |
| Geriatric medicine physicians | 1 | 0.1 | 49th | 0.6 |
| Sleep medicine physicians | 1 | 0.1 | 50th | 0.3 |
| Hematologists | 1 | 0.1 | 39th | 0.3 |
Counts are one row per NPI under the clinician's primary Medicare specialty, from the CMS file dated Aug 18, 2026. Rates use the Census Bureau's July 2024 estimate for Alaska. Nurse practitioners, physician assistants, chiropractors and optometrists have their own files and are not in the MD and DO total.
Where Alaska physicians practice
In the 1,730 clinicians Alaska has across the physician specialty files we sell, counted once each, 38% are women and 30% offer telehealth. The median graduation year is 2007. These are the cities with the most of them.
| City | Clinicians | Share of Alaska |
|---|---|---|
| Anchorage | 828 | 48% |
| Fairbanks | 167 | 9.7% |
| Eagle River | 138 | 8% |
| Juneau | 86 | 5% |
| Soldotna | 79 | 4.6% |
Largest practice groups in Alaska
Groups ranked by the number of Alaska clinicians the CMS file lists under them. 64% of Alaska physicians with a group on file are in a group of 50 or more listed clinicians, against 80% across the US.
| Practice or health system, as CMS prints it | Alaska clinicians listed |
|---|---|
| Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium | 334 |
| Select Physical Therapy Holdings Inc | 149 |
| Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium | 115 |
| Central Peninsula General Hospital Inc | 68 |
| Tanana Valley Clinic LLC | 65 |
A health system can appear under more than one legal name, so a group here may be part of a larger one.
Questions about Alaska doctors
1,846 MD and DO clinicians in Alaska are enrolled in Medicare in the CMS file dated Aug 18, 2026, one per NPI, in the state of their main practice location. That is 249 per 100,000 residents, 10th of 51 among the states and DC. Physicians who bill no Medicare patients are not in the file.
Nurse Practitioners are the largest group in Alaska, with 727, then physician assistants with 542. Nurse practitioners and physician assistants are counted in their own files and are not in the MD and DO total.
We sell national lists, one CSV per specialty for $295, or every specialty in one file for $995. We don't sell a state-only file. City, state and ZIP are on nearly every row, so keeping the Alaska rows is one filter in any spreadsheet.
States with a similar count per capita
Specialty email lists
National CSVs, one per specialty. City, state and ZIP are on the rows, so any state is one filter away.