Eye and Vision Services Providers / 152WC0802X
Individual · specialization · Medicare specialty 41
152WC0802X Corneal and Contact Management Optometrist
152WC0802X is the taxonomy code for Corneal and Contact Management, a specialization of Optometrist, in the NUCC group “Eye and Vision Services Providers”. It is a code for individual providers — the kind used on a Type 1 NPI. Medicare maps it to specialty 41, Optometry, under which 46,119 practitioners are enrolled.
- 1Taxonomy code 152WC0802X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty 41 Optometry
- 4Codes in this group 17
Definition
The professional activities performed by an Optometrist related to the fitting of contact lenses to an eye, ongoing evaluation of the cornea's ability to sustain successful contact lens wear, and treatment of any external eye or corneal condition which can affect contact lens wear.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 152WC0802X sits
- Group: Eye and Vision Services Providers — code 2 of 17 in the group
- Classification: Optometrist 152W00000X
- Specialization: Corneal and Contact Management 152WC0802X
Choose 152WC0802X over the general Optometrist code (152W00000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in corneal and contact management; 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 152WC0802X to Medicare specialty 41 (Optometry). That specialty — not the taxonomy code itself — is what Medicare enrollment records and uses for payment. 46,119 practitioners are enrolled under it nationally, and 6 other taxonomy codes map to the same specialty.
Other codes under the same Medicare specialty: 152W00000X Optometrist; 152WL0500X Low Vision Rehabilitation Optometrist; 152WP0200X Pediatric Optometrist; 152WS0006X Sports Vision Optometrist; 152WV0400X Vision Therapy Optometrist; 152WX0102X Occupational Vision Optometrist.
Related codes
| Code | Optometrist — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 152W00000X | Optometrist |
| 152WL0500X | Low Vision Rehabilitation |
| 152WX0102X | Occupational Vision |
| 152WP0200X | Pediatrics |
The nearest 4 of 6 other codes under Optometrist; all are on the group page.
History of 152WC0802X
NUCC's earliest recorded change to 152WC0802X is from 2009 (added definition, added source).
- 2009-01-01 — added definition, added source
Similar codes in other groups
If 152WC0802X 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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- 163WC0400X Case Management Registered Nurse (Nursing Service Providers)
- 163WP0000X Pain Management Registered Nurse (Nursing Service Providers)
- 1744P3200X Prosthetics Case Management (Other Service Providers)
- 1835P1400X Pain Management Pharmacist (Pharmacy Service Providers)
- 2471Q0001X Quality Management Radiologic Technologist (Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers)
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Using 152WC0802X
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.