Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers / 106S00000X
Individual · classification · Medicare specialty 62
106S00000X Behavior Technician
106S00000X is the taxonomy code for Behavior Technician, 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 106S00000X
- 2Level Classification
- 3Medicare specialty 62 Psychologist, Clinical
- 4Codes in this group 40
Definition
The behavior technician is a paraprofessional who practices under the close, ongoing supervision of a behavior analyst or assistant behavior analyst certified by the Behavior Analyst Certification Board and/or credentialed by a state (such as through licensure). The behavior technician is primarily responsible for the implementation of components of behavior-analytic treatment plans developed by the supervisor. That may include collecting data on treatment targets and conducting certain types of behavioral assessments (e.g., stimulus preference assessments). The behavior technician does not design treatment or assessment plans or procedures but provides services as assigned by the supervisor responsible for his or her work.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 106S00000X sits
- Group: Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers — code 2 of 40 in the group
- Classification: Behavior Technician 106S00000X
Behavior Technician has no specializations, so 106S00000X is the only code for it. A provider may report more than one taxonomy code on an NPI but marks one as primary.
Medicare
CMS's taxonomy crosswalk links 106S00000X 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
No other codes share the classification Behavior Technician. The rest of Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers is on the group page.
History of 106S00000X
106S00000X was added to the code set in 2016.
- 2016-07-01 — new
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Using 106S00000X
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.