Dietary & Nutritional Service Providers / 133VN1006X

Individual · specialization · Medicare specialty 71

133VN1006X Metabolic Nutrition Registered Dietitian

133VN1006X is the taxonomy code for Nutrition, Metabolic, a specialization of Dietitian, Registered, in the NUCC group “Dietary & Nutritional Service Providers”. It is a code for individual providers — the kind used on a Type 1 NPI. Medicare maps it to specialty 71, Registered Dietitian or Nutrition Professional, under which 11,323 practitioners are enrolled.

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  1. 1Taxonomy code 133VN1006X
  2. 2Level Specialization
  3. 3Medicare specialty 71 Registered Dietitian or Nutrition Professional
  4. 4Codes in this group 13
Code
133VN1006X
specialization
NPI type
Type 1
individual
Medicare specialty
71
11,323 enrolled
NUCC change log
2 changes
latest 2024

Definition

A registered dietitian who achieves specialized competency in metabolic nutrition.

— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1

Where 133VN1006X sits

Choose 133VN1006X over the general Dietitian, Registered code (133V00000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in nutrition, metabolic; 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 133VN1006X 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; 133VN1005X Renal 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

CodeDietitian, Registered — other specializations
133V00000XRegistered Dietitian
133VN1101XNutrition, Gerontological
133VN1201XNutrition, Obesity and Weight Management
133VN1301XNutrition, Oncology
133VN1004XNutrition, Pediatric

The nearest 5 of 8 other codes under Dietitian, Registered; all are on the group page.

History of 133VN1006X

133VN1006X was added to the code set in 2002, and has been revised 1 time since.

Similar codes in other groups

If 133VN1006X 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:

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Using 133VN1006X

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.