Of 19 physician email list sellers, 5 print a price on their own pages and 2 state all five things a buyer needs to compare them

Findings

1. Only 5 of 19 sellers print a price for a physician list on a public page: LeadsPlease, UpLead, CarePrecise, ReachStream and Doctor Email List.
2. LeadsPlease and UpLead state all five criteria and score 5 of 5.
3. CarePrecise, Doctor Email List, ReachStream, Avention Media, Medicoleads and iInfotanks score 4 of 5.
4. 14 of 19 state a free sample, trial or free plan, and 14 name where their data comes from.
5. 9 of 19 state a written refund, replacement or credit for bad emails.
6. 18 of 19 print a US physician count; the printed counts count different things, from physicians to contacts to email addresses.

Doctor Email List is one of the 19 sellers scored here. It scores 4 of 5 and ranks fourth by the tie rule below.

What we scored

We chose five criteria before reading any seller's pages. Each is something a buyer can check without talking to sales, and each earns one point only when the seller's own page states it.

1. Price printed. A price for a physician list, shown on a public page.
2. Free sample. A free sample, trial or free plan that lets you see records before paying.
3. Source named. The page says where the data comes from.
4. Bad-email remedy. A written refund, replacement or credit when emails bounce or prove wrong.
5. US count printed. A count of US physician contacts.

Ties break on the price criterion, then alphabetically.

LeadsPlease5

UpLead5

CarePrecise4

Doctor Email List4

ReachStream4

Avention Media4

Medicoleads4

iInfotanks4

Ampliz3

DataCaptive3

Healthlink Dimensions3

InfoGlobalData3

LakeB2B3

MedStream Data3

MedicoReach3

MMS (Medical Marketing Service)2

BizProspex1

Definitive Healthcare1

IQVIA OneKey1

Source: Carroway Research reading of each seller's own pages on 6 October 2026. One point per criterion the seller's page states. Criteria and per-seller flags are in providers.csv.

The ranking

What the scores show

Price is the scarce item. The five sellers that print a price are the ones a buyer can compare without a call. UpLead prints $6,999 for 112,656 US contacts, one time. CarePrecise prints $1,259 for its physician database as a single download, with emails sold separately per address. ReachStream prints $29 a month billed yearly. LeadsPlease prints $299.75 for 500 email leads. Doctor Email List prints $295 per specialty and $995 for all 36 specialty files. These prices buy different things: a per-lead pack, a monthly credit plan, a database and a specialty file. Compare cost per record only after asking what one record is.

Counts do not line up. LakeB2B prints 1,313,857 US physicians with 1,037,178 with email on a page dated 6 September 2026. MedicoReach prints 1,052,636 US physician contacts. The CMS Doctors and Clinicians file dated 18 August 2026 lists 703,381 clinicians with an MD or DO credential, according to Carroway's count of that file. A printed count can include nurses, duplicates by practice location, or addresses, so the number is a reason to ask a question, not an answer.

Most sellers sell by quote. MedicoReach, MedicoLeads, LakeB2B, DataCaptive, MedStream Data and Avention Media sell by quote or plan. A quote can be the right way to buy a custom list. It also means the price is not on the page we read, so those sellers get no point on the first criterion.

Where each ranking choice matters. If you need a custom audience, other countries, nurses or dentists, the sellers that score lower on this rule may fit better. If you want a price, a sample and a refund rule you can read before you talk to anyone, LeadsPlease and UpLead state all of them. Doctor Email List does not state a free sample: it shows real rows from the CMS file on each specialty page, which we did not count as a sample, and it covers physicians enrolled in Medicare only.

Method

• Sellers. 19 sellers of physician email lists or physician contact data: 18 found in Google results for physician and specialty email list searches and in AI answers to buyer questions between 28 September and 6 October 2026, plus Doctor Email List. BookYourData was a candidate but refused every automated request on 6 October 2026, so it is not scored.
• Reading. Each seller's physician-list, pricing, sample and terms pages were fetched on 6 October 2026. A seller's fact counts only if the quote recorded for it on 29 September 2026 was found again on the page on 6 October 2026. Where a page's wording had changed and the quote was no longer found, the criterion scores 0: this applies to BizProspex (price and refund terms), Definitive Healthcare (trial), Ampliz (US count) and InfoGlobalData (source). Where only a date changed, we checked the quote by hand and kept the point: LakeB2B (count), CarePrecise (price and sample) and MedicoReach (sample).
• Scoring. One point per criterion, 5 maximum, as defined above.
• Scope. The scores count what each seller's page states. A page can omit a price that a sales call would give. Sellers with a platform, such as Definitive Healthcare and IQVIA OneKey, sell something different from a list, and the criteria fit them less well. Facts are rechecked by 5 December 2026.

Data

providers.csv has one row per seller: rank, how it sells, the five criteria as 1 or 0, the score, the price and US count it states, and the page read. score-by-provider.csv has the score used in the chart.

• Criteria and scores for 19 sellers CSV, 19 rows, 3.3 KBOne row per seller: rank, how it sells, the five criteria as 1 or 0, the score, the price and US count it states (blank where none) and the page read.
• Score by seller CSV, 19 rows, 0.3 KBOne row per seller and its score out of 5.