Eye and Vision Services Providers / 152WL0500X
Individual · specialization · Medicare specialty 41
152WL0500X Low Vision Rehabilitation Optometrist
152WL0500X is the taxonomy code for Low Vision Rehabilitation, 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 152WL0500X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty 41 Optometry
- 4Codes in this group 17
Definition
Optometrists who specialize in low-vision care having training to assess visual function, prescribe low-vision devices, develop treatment plans, and recommend other vision rehabilitation services.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 152WL0500X sits
- Group: Eye and Vision Services Providers — code 3 of 17 in the group
- Classification: Optometrist 152W00000X
- Specialization: Low Vision Rehabilitation 152WL0500X
Choose 152WL0500X over the general Optometrist code (152W00000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in low vision rehabilitation; 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 152WL0500X 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; 152WC0802X Corneal and Contact Management Optometrist; 152WP0200X Pediatric Optometrist; 152WS0006X Sports Vision Optometrist; 152WV0400X Vision Therapy Optometrist; 152WX0102X Occupational Vision Optometrist.
Related codes
| Code | Optometrist — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 152W00000X | Optometrist |
| 152WC0802X | Corneal and Contact Management |
| 152WX0102X | Occupational Vision |
| 152WP0200X | Pediatrics |
| 152WS0006X | Sports Vision |
The nearest 5 of 6 other codes under Optometrist; all are on the group page.
History of 152WL0500X
NUCC's earliest recorded change to 152WL0500X is from 2009 (added definition, added source).
- 2009-01-01 — added definition, added source
Similar codes in other groups
If 152WL0500X 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:
- 208100000X Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 2081P0010X Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 103TR0400X Rehabilitation Psychologist (Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers)
- 111NR0400X Rehabilitation Chiropractor (Chiropractic Providers)
- 163WC3500X Cardiac Rehabilitation Registered Nurse (Nursing Service Providers)
- 163WR0400X Rehabilitation Registered Nurse (Nursing Service Providers)
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Using 152WL0500X
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.