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These are the federal agencies whose public datasets Fonteum ingests and attributes — the issuing authorities, not customers or partners. Every figure on the site links back to one of them.
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Reproducible by design
Every figure traces to its federal source.
14-tuple provenance
Every rendered fact ties to a source URL, dataset ID, snapshot date, row key, and SHA-256 — the full chain-of-custody record.
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Each study ships the exact query behind its figures, run against the cited federal snapshot. Re-run it yourself.
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Published counts are reconciled against the upstream federal datasets on a daily cadence, with drift logged.
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The substrate, by the numbers
10.43 active orthopedic surgeons per 100,000 residents — ranked 16 of 51 U.S. states + DC.
Three states whose orthopedic surgeon per-100k density is closest to North Carolina's — useful for benchmarking.
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North Carolina has 1,152 active orthopedic surgeons (10.43 per 100,000 residents) — ranked 16 of 51 U.S. states + DC. Source: CMS NPPES NPI Registry + U.S. Census Bureau, snapshot 2026-05-06. Threshold for "underserved" in the parent study: 5 per 100,000. Citation: Fonteum Research, /research/orthopedic-surgeon-supply-by-state-2026.