Chiropractic Providers / 111NS0005X
Individual · specialization · Medicare specialty 35
111NS0005X Sports Physician Chiropractor
111NS0005X is the taxonomy code for Sports Physician, a specialization of Chiropractor, in the NUCC group “Chiropractic Providers”. It is a code for individual providers — the kind used on a Type 1 NPI. Medicare maps it to specialty 35, Chiropractic, under which 45,873 practitioners are enrolled.
- 1Taxonomy code 111NS0005X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty 35 Chiropractic
- 4Codes in this group 12
Definition
A sports chiropractor is uniquely trained to provide care and treatment of injuries or illness resulting from sports and physical fitness activities. Doctors of Chiropractic with the Diplomate American Chiropractic Board of Sports Physicians (DACBSP) or the Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician (CCSP), sport specialty certifications from the American Chiropractic Board of Sports Physicians, have advanced training in the assessment, management and rehabilitation of sports related injuries. Extremity care, rehabilitation and soft tissue procedures are common skills utilized by these doctors. The specialty training covers a broad spectrum from the pediatric athlete to professional and Olympic athletes, and everything in between, using a variety of techniques and modalities.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 111NS0005X sits
- Group: Chiropractic Providers — code 11 of 12 in the group
- Classification: Chiropractor 111N00000X
- Specialization: Sports Physician 111NS0005X
Choose 111NS0005X over the general Chiropractor code (111N00000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in sports physician; 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 111NS0005X to Medicare specialty 35 (Chiropractic). That specialty — not the taxonomy code itself — is what Medicare enrollment records and uses for payment. 45,873 practitioners are enrolled under it nationally, and 11 other taxonomy codes map to the same specialty.
Other codes under the same Medicare specialty: 111N00000X Chiropractor; 111NI0013X Independent Medical Examiner Chiropractor; 111NI0900X Internist Chiropractor; 111NN0400X Neurology Chiropractor; 111NN1001X Nutrition Chiropractor; 111NP0017X Pediatric Chiropractor; 111NR0200X Radiology Chiropractor; 111NR0400X Rehabilitation Chiropractor; and 3 more.
Related codes
| Code | Chiropractor — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 111NP0017X | Pediatric Chiropractor |
| 111NR0200X | Radiology |
| 111NR0400X | Rehabilitation |
| 111NT0100X | Thermography |
The nearest 4 of 11 other codes under Chiropractor; all are on the group page.
History of 111NS0005X
NUCC's earliest recorded change to 111NS0005X is from 2009 (definition added).
- 2009-07-01 — definition added
Similar codes in other groups
If 111NS0005X 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:
- 207LP4000X Physician Nutrition Specialist (Anesthesiology) (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 207PS0010X Sports Medicine (Emergency Medicine) Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 207QP0002X Physician Nutrition Specialist (Family Medicine) (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 207QS0010X Sports Medicine (Family Medicine) Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 207RP1002X Physician Nutrition Specialist (Internal Medicine) (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 207RS0010X Sports Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
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Using 111NS0005X
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.