Eye and Vision Services Providers / 152WX0102X
Individual · specialization · Medicare specialty 41
152WX0102X Occupational Vision Optometrist
152WX0102X is the taxonomy code for Occupational Vision, 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 152WX0102X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty 41 Optometry
- 4Codes in this group 17
Definition
Optometrists who work in Occupational Vision, the branch of environmental optometry, consider all aspects of the relationship between work and vision, visual performances, eye safety, and health.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 152WX0102X sits
- Group: Eye and Vision Services Providers — code 4 of 17 in the group
- Classification: Optometrist 152W00000X
- Specialization: Occupational Vision 152WX0102X
Choose 152WX0102X over the general Optometrist code (152W00000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in occupational vision; 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 152WX0102X 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; 152WL0500X Low Vision Rehabilitation Optometrist; 152WP0200X Pediatric Optometrist; 152WS0006X Sports Vision Optometrist; 152WV0400X Vision Therapy Optometrist.
Related codes
| Code | Optometrist — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 152W00000X | Optometrist |
| 152WC0802X | Corneal and Contact Management |
| 152WL0500X | Low Vision Rehabilitation |
| 152WP0200X | Pediatrics |
| 152WS0006X | Sports Vision |
| 152WV0400X | Vision Therapy |
History of 152WX0102X
NUCC's earliest recorded change to 152WX0102X is from 2009 (added definition, added source).
- 2009-01-01 — added definition, added source
Similar codes in other groups
If 152WX0102X 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:
- 2083X0100X Occupational Medicine Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 2083P0500X Preventive Medicine/Occupational Environmental Medicine Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 111NX0100X Occupational Health Chiropractor (Chiropractic Providers)
- 163WX0106X Occupational Health Registered Nurse (Nursing Service Providers)
- 364SX0106X Occupational Health Clinical Nurse Specialist (Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers)
- 363LX0106X Occupational Health Nurse Practitioner (Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers)
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Using 152WX0102X
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.