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Kentucky
18,279 individual providers in 80 specialties, 2024 · 24 metro and micro areas
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Individual providers by data year: 2020: 16,524 · 2021: 17,108 · 2022: 17,497 · 2023: 17,860 · 2024: 18,279.
Specialties practicing in Kentucky, 2024
Metro areas and non-metro Kentucky, 2024
| Area | Type | Individual providers | Physicians |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bowling Green, KY | Metro | 638 | 249 |
| Campbellsville, KY | Micro | 115 | 41 |
| Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN (crosses a state line) | Metro | 8,631 | 4,476 |
| Clarksville, TN-KY (crosses a state line) | Metro | 701 | 249 |
| Corbin, KY | Micro | 485 | 165 |
| Danville, KY | Micro | 197 | 88 |
| Elizabethtown, KY | Metro | 408 | 139 |
| Frankfort, KY | Micro | 160 | 47 |
| Franklin, KY | Micro | 45 | 16 |
| Glasgow, KY | Micro | 172 | 75 |
| Henderson, KY | Micro | 151 | 58 |
| Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH (crosses a state line) | Metro | 1,737 | 838 |
| Lexington-Fayette, KY | Metro | 3,843 | 1,931 |
| Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN (crosses a state line) | Metro | 6,138 | 2,754 |
| Madisonville, KY | Micro | 193 | 81 |
| Mayfield, KY | Micro | 55 | 19 |
| Middlesborough, KY | Micro | 57 | 18 |
| Mount Sterling, KY | Micro | 97 | 24 |
| Murray, KY | Micro | 157 | 52 |
| Owensboro, KY | Metro | 569 | 223 |
| Paducah, KY-IL (crosses a state line) | Metro | 621 | 233 |
| Pikeville, KY | Micro | 551 | 270 |
| Richmond-Berea, KY | Micro | 243 | 83 |
| Somerset, KY | Micro | 244 | 103 |
| Kentucky outside metro areas | Non-metro | 1,555 | 512 |
Areas are Census CBSAs with at least one county in Kentucky; provider counts cover the whole area, including any part across a state line. See geography.
Largest cities in Kentucky
- Louisville (4,761 clinicians)
- Lexington (3,461 clinicians)
- Bowling Green (583 clinicians)
- Paducah (579 clinicians)
- Owensboro (557 clinicians)
- Edgewood (531 clinicians)
- Ashland (467 clinicians)
- Pikeville (378 clinicians)
- Elizabethtown (348 clinicians)
- Florence (263 clinicians)
Largest hospitals in Kentucky
- Norton Hospitals, Inc (2,164 affiliated clinicians)
- University Of Kentucky Hospital (1,419 affiliated clinicians)
- Uofl Health - Jewish Hospital And Mary & Elizabeth Hospital (1,373 affiliated clinicians)
- St Elizabeth Edgewood (1,268 affiliated clinicians)
- Baptist Health Louisville (1,266 affiliated clinicians)
- Baptist Health Lexington (1,021 affiliated clinicians)
- Baptist Health Hardin (845 affiliated clinicians)
- St Elizabeth Florence (843 affiliated clinicians)
- Baptist Health Lagrange (792 affiliated clinicians)
- King's Daughters' Medical Center (773 affiliated clinicians)
Source: CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners public use files (Original Medicare Part B fee-for-service). Data year 2024. Largest by the count of clinicians.