Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers / 101YP2500X
Individual · specialization · Medicare specialty E2
101YP2500X Professional Counselor
101YP2500X is the taxonomy code for Professional, a specialization of Counselor, in the NUCC group “Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers”. It is a code for individual providers — the kind used on a Type 1 NPI. Medicare maps it to specialty E2, Licensed Professional Counselor, under which 71,777 practitioners are enrolled.
- 1Taxonomy code 101YP2500X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty E2 Licensed Professional Counselor
- 4Codes in this group 40
Definition
NUCC publishes no definition for 101YP2500X; the code is identified by its place in the tree below.
Where 101YP2500X sits
- Group: Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers — code 10 of 40 in the group
- Classification: Counselor 101Y00000X
- Specialization: Professional 101YP2500X
Choose 101YP2500X over the general Counselor code (101Y00000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in professional; the general code covers the classification as a whole. A provider may report more than one taxonomy code on an NPI but marks one as primary.
Medicare
CMS's taxonomy crosswalk links 101YP2500X to Medicare specialty E2 (Licensed Professional Counselor). That specialty — not the taxonomy code itself — is what Medicare enrollment records and uses for payment. 71,777 practitioners are enrolled under it nationally, and 1 other taxonomy code map to the same specialty.
Other codes under the same Medicare specialty: 101YM0800X Mental Health Counselor.
Related codes
| Code | Counselor — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 101YA0400X | Addiction (Substance Use Disorder) |
| 101YM0800X | Mental Health |
| 101YP1600X | Pastoral |
| 101YS0200X | School |
The nearest 4 of 5 other codes under Counselor; all are on the group page.
History of 101YP2500X
NUCC's notes record no dated changes for 101YP2500X. The code set is republished every January and July, when codes are added, retitled or marked inactive; this page reflects version 26.1, so check the NUCC site if you are reading it after the next release.
Similar codes in other groups
If 101YP2500X is not quite right, these codes in other groups share a word with it — often the same field practised by a different kind of provider:
- 405300000X Prevention Professional (Other Service Providers)
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Using 101YP2500X
The code goes in the taxonomy field of the NPI application in NPPES, and on claims where a payer asks for it — box 24J (shaded) or 33b on the CMS-1500 with the ZZ qualifier, or the PRV segment of an 837 electronic claim. Payers match it against the taxonomy on the NPI record and, for Medicare, against the specialty on the enrollment, so all three should agree. To see which code a provider uses, search their NPI in the lookup.
Sources: NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set, version 26.1 (CSV); CMS Medicare Provider and Supplier Taxonomy Crosswalk, August 2026; CMS Medicare Fee-For-Service Public Provider Enrollment, extract of 2026-09-29. Checked 2026-10-24. Methodology.