133VN1005X Renal Nutrition Registered Dietitian

Definition

An individual who is a Board Certified Specialist in Renal Nutrition and works directly with adult and/or pediatric patients with acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease (CKD) stages 1-5, or receiving renal replacement therapies (dialysis/transplant) in a variety of settings, OR works indirectly in management, education, or research practice linked specifically to renal nutrition. The specialist in renal/nephrology nutrition is responsible for nutrition assessment, diagnosis, intervention, monitoring, and evaluation.

— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1

Where 133VN1005X sits

• Group: Dietary & Nutritional Service Providers — code 10 of 13 in the group
• Classification: Dietitian, Registered 133V00000X
• Specialization: Nutrition, Renal 133VN1005X

Choose 133VN1005X over the general Dietitian, Registered code (133V00000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in nutrition, renal; 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 133VN1005X to Medicare specialty 71 (Registered Dietitian or Nutrition Professional). That specialty — not the taxonomy code itself — is what Medicare enrollment records and uses for payment. 11,323 practitioners are enrolled under it nationally, and 8 other taxonomy codes map to the same specialty.

Other codes under the same Medicare specialty: 133V00000X Registered Dietitian; 133VN1004X Pediatric Nutrition Registered Dietitian; 133VN1006X Metabolic Nutrition Registered Dietitian; 133VN1101X Gerontological Nutrition Registered Dietitian; 133VN1201X Obesity and Weight Management Nutrition Registered Dietitian; 133VN1301X Oncology Nutrition Registered Dietitian; 133VN1401X Pediatric Critical Care Nutrition Registered Dietitian; 133VN1501X Sports Dietetics Nutrition Registered Dietitian.

Related codes

The nearest 4 of 8 other codes under Dietitian, Registered; all are on the group page.

History of 133VN1005X

NUCC's earliest recorded change to 133VN1005X is from 2019 (definition added, source added).

• 2019-07-01 — definition added, source added

Similar codes in other groups

If 133VN1005X 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)
• 207QP0002X Physician Nutrition Specialist (Family Medicine) (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
• 207RP1002X Physician Nutrition Specialist (Internal Medicine) (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
• 2080P1004X Physician Nutrition Specialist (Pediatrics) (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
• 2086P0122X Physician Nutrition Specialist (Surgery) (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
• 111NN1001X Nutrition Chiropractor (Chiropractic Providers)

Using 133VN1005X

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.