Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers / 102X00000X
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102X00000X Poetry Therapist
102X00000X is the taxonomy code for Poetry Therapist, in the NUCC group “Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers”. It is a code for individual providers — the kind used on a Type 1 NPI. It has no entry in the CMS Medicare taxonomy crosswalk.
- 1Taxonomy code 102X00000X
- 2Level Classification
- 3Medicare specialty Not in the crosswalk
- 4Codes in this group 40
Definition
A medical or mental health professional who has attained credentials after satisfactorily completing a poetry therapy training program approved by the National Federation for Biblio/Poetry Therapy (NFBPT). Training includes didactic work, peer group experience, and supervised practicum.<br/>An NFBPT credentialed certified poetry therapist (CPT) or registered poetry therapist (PTR) integrates discussion of published literature and reflective or creative writing into the psychotherapeutic process to achieve goals of emotional well-being, symptom reduction, and improved interpersonal communication.<br/>Certified poetry therapists and registered poetry therapists are licensed mental health professionals with advanced training in the theory and practice of poetry therapy. CPTs and PTRs are qualified to work independently with emotionally troubled populations in clinical, rehabilitative, community and educational institutions. They also work with emotionally healthy individuals adjusting to developmental issues, life crises, or disabilities. The PTR completes an advanced level of training and fieldwork, commensurate with the highest levels of clinical practice. The terms poetry therapy, applied poetry facilitation, journal therapy, bibliotherapy, biblio/poetry therapy, and poetry/journal therapy reflect the interactive use of literature and/or writing to promote personal growth and emotional healing. In addition to poetry, poetry therapy applies all forms or written and spoken language including story, myth, folk and fairy tale and other genres of poetic expression as well as journal, memoir, and narrative. The poetry therapy process integrates discussion of published literature and reflective or creative writing for expression and communication of thoughts and feelings to facilitate participants' emotional well-being. The field of poetry therapy encompasses all of these modalities, though only a duly trained and licensed clinical practitioner can be credentialed as CPT or PTR.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 102X00000X sits
- Group: Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers — code 14 of 40 in the group
- Classification: Poetry Therapist 102X00000X
Poetry Therapist has no specializations, so 102X00000X is the only code for it. A provider may report more than one taxonomy code on an NPI but marks one as primary.
Medicare
102X00000X has no entry in the CMS Medicare Provider and Supplier Taxonomy Crosswalk. That usually means Medicare does not enroll this kind of provider under its own specialty — the provider can still hold an NPI and use this code on claims to other payers.
Related codes
No other codes share the classification Poetry Therapist. The rest of Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers is on the group page.
History of 102X00000X
102X00000X was added to the code set in 2007.
- 2007-07-01 — new
Similar codes in other groups
If 102X00000X 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:
- 125K00000X Advanced Practice Dental Therapist (Dental Providers)
- 125J00000X Dental Therapist (Dental Providers)
- 163WM1400X Nurse Massage Therapist (NMT) (Nursing Service Providers)
- 221700000X Art Therapist (Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers)
- 225600000X Dance Therapist (Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers)
- 222Q00000X Developmental Therapist (Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers)
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Using 102X00000X
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). Checked 2026-10-24. Methodology.