Dietary & Nutritional Service Providers / 133VN1501X
Individual · specialization · Medicare specialty 71
133VN1501X Sports Dietetics Nutrition Registered Dietitian
133VN1501X is the taxonomy code for Nutrition, Sports Dietetics, 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.
- 1Taxonomy code 133VN1501X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty 71 Registered Dietitian or Nutrition Professional
- 4Codes in this group 13
Definition
An individual who is a Board Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics and applies evidence-based nutrition knowledge in exercise and sports. RDNs specializing in sports dietetics assess, educate, and counsel athletes and active individuals. They design, implement, and manage safe and effective nutrition strategies that enhance lifelong health, fitness, and optimal performance.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 133VN1501X sits
- Group: Dietary & Nutritional Service Providers — code 11 of 13 in the group
- Classification: Dietitian, Registered 133V00000X
- Specialization: Nutrition, Sports Dietetics 133VN1501X
Choose 133VN1501X over the general Dietitian, Registered code (133V00000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in nutrition, sports dietetics; 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 133VN1501X 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; 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.
Related codes
| Code | Dietitian, Registered — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 133VN1004X | Nutrition, Pediatric |
| 133VN1401X | Nutrition, Pediatric Critical Care |
| 133VN1005X | Nutrition, Renal |
The nearest 3 of 8 other codes under Dietitian, Registered; all are on the group page.
History of 133VN1501X
133VN1501X was added to the code set in 2019.
- 2019-07-01 — new
Similar codes in other groups
If 133VN1501X 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 133VN1501X
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.