Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers / 103TP0016X
Individual · specialization · Medicare specialty 62
103TP0016X Prescribing (Medical) Psychologist
103TP0016X is the taxonomy code for Prescribing (Medical), a specialization of Psychologist, 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 62, Psychologist, Clinical, under which 1,025 practitioners are enrolled.
- 1Taxonomy code 103TP0016X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty 62 Psychologist, Clinical
- 4Codes in this group 40
Definition
A licensed, doctoral-level psychologist authorized to prescribe and has undergone specialized education and training in preparation for prescriptive practice and has passed an examination accepted by the state board of psychology relevant to establishing competence for prescribing, and has received from the state board of psychology a current certificate granting prescriptive authority, which has not been revoked or suspended.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 103TP0016X sits
- Group: Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers — code 32 of 40 in the group
- Classification: Psychologist 103T00000X
- Specialization: Prescribing (Medical) 103TP0016X
Choose 103TP0016X over the general Psychologist code (103T00000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in prescribing (medical); 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 103TP0016X to Medicare specialty 62 (Psychologist, Clinical). That specialty — not the taxonomy code itself — is what Medicare enrollment records and uses for payment. 1,025 practitioners are enrolled under it nationally, and 23 other taxonomy codes map to the same specialty.
Other codes under the same Medicare specialty: 103T00000X Psychologist; 103TA0400X Addiction (Substance Use Disorder) Psychologist; 103TA0700X Adult Development & Aging Psychologist; 103TB0200X Cognitive & Behavioral Psychologist; 103TC0700X Clinical Psychologist; 103TC1900X Counseling Psychologist; 103TC2200X Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychologist; 103TE1000X Psychologist; and 15 more.
Related codes
| Code | Psychologist — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 103TH0100X | Health Service |
| 103TM1700X | Men & Masculinity |
| 103TM1800X | Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities |
| 103TP0814X | Psychoanalysis |
| 103TP2700X | Psychotherapy |
| 103TR0400X | Rehabilitation |
The nearest 6 of 21 other codes under Psychologist; all are on the group page.
History of 103TP0016X
103TP0016X was added to the code set in 2007, and has been revised 1 time since.
- 2007-01-01 — new
- 2019-01-01 — definition modified, source modified
Similar codes in other groups
If 103TP0016X 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:
- 207PE0004X Emergency Medical Services (Emergency Medicine) Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 207PT0002X Medical Toxicology (Emergency Medicine) Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 202C00000X Independent Medical Examiner Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 207RX0202X Medical Oncology Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 207SG0207X Medical Biochemical Genetics (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 207SG0205X Ph.D. Medical Genetics Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
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Using 103TP0016X
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.