Emergency Medical Service Providers / 146E00000X
Individual · classification · Medicare specialty 93
146E00000X Community Paramedic
146E00000X is the taxonomy code for Community Paramedic, in the NUCC group “Emergency Medical Service Providers”. It is a code for individual providers — the kind used on a Type 1 NPI. Medicare maps it to specialty 93, Physician/Emergency Medicine, under which 64,532 practitioners are enrolled.
- 1Taxonomy code 146E00000X
- 2Level Classification
- 3Medicare specialty 93 Physician/Emergency Medicine
- 4Codes in this group 5
Definition
A Community Paramedic is trained in responding to a scene and arranging appointments and transportation to alternate destinations through established partnerships or direct field communication. Alternative destinations for patient care include walk-in clinics, detox facilities, shelters and homeless services, and in-home assistance services. Services provided by community paramedics include, but are not limited to, completing blood glucose checks, vital signs, blood draws, and other treatments for the purpose of assessing and reporting to the referring physician and providing in-home evaluation of high-risk patients following hospital discharge.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 146E00000X sits
- Group: Emergency Medical Service Providers — code 1 of 5 in the group
- Classification: Community Paramedic 146E00000X
Community Paramedic has no specializations, so 146E00000X 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 146E00000X to Medicare specialty 93 (Physician/Emergency Medicine). That specialty — not the taxonomy code itself — is what Medicare enrollment records and uses for payment. 64,532 practitioners are enrolled under it nationally, and 7 other taxonomy codes map to the same specialty.
Other codes under the same Medicare specialty: 207P00000X Emergency Medicine Physician; 207PE0004X Emergency Medical Services (Emergency Medicine) Physician; 207PE0005X Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine (Emergency Medicine) Physician; 207PH0002X Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Emergency Medicine) Physician; 207PP0204X Pediatric Emergency Medicine (Emergency Medicine) Physician; 207PS0010X Sports Medicine (Emergency Medicine) Physician; 207PT0002X Medical Toxicology (Emergency Medicine) Physician.
Related codes
No other codes share the classification Community Paramedic. The rest of Emergency Medical Service Providers is on the group page.
History of 146E00000X
NUCC's notes record no dated changes for 146E00000X. The code set is republished every January and July, when codes are added, retitled or marked inactive; this page reflects version 26.1, so check the NUCC site if you are reading it after the next release.
Similar codes in other groups
If 146E00000X 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:
- 163WC1500X Community Health Registered Nurse (Nursing Service Providers)
- 172V00000X Community Health Worker (Other Service Providers)
- 364SC1501X Community Health/Public Health Clinical Nurse Specialist (Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers)
- 364SP0812X Community Psychiatric/Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist (Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers)
- 363LC1500X Community Health Nurse Practitioner (Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers)
- 225XR0403X Driving and Community Mobility Occupational Therapist (Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers)
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Using 146E00000X
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.