Other Service Providers / 1710I1003X
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1710I1003X Independent Duty Medical Technicians
1710I1003X is the taxonomy code for Independent Duty Medical Technicians, a specialization of Military Health Care Provider, in the NUCC group “Other Service Providers”. It is a code for individual providers — the kind used on a Type 1 NPI. It has no entry in the CMS Medicare taxonomy crosswalk.
- 1Taxonomy code 1710I1003X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty Not in the crosswalk
- 4Codes in this group 38
Definition
An Independent Duty Medical Technician (IDMT) is specially trained and educated to perform primary medical care, minor surgical services, and treatment of dental disorders for active duty military members in a variety of health care and non-health care settings worldwide under direct and indirect physician supervision. An IDMT may take medical histories, perform physical exams, order lab tests and x-rays, prescribe medications, and give immunizations. IDMTs work under the direct supervision of a physician preceptor when at home station and indirectly when assigned to a Mobile Aid Station, Mobile Medical Unit, remote site, or otherwise deployed specifically as an IDMT. An IDMT may be an experienced Aerospace Medical Service Technician who meets special task qualifications and is recommended for training by the Aerospace Medical Service Functional Manager at their Medical Treatment Facility. IDMTs maintain certification as Nationally Registered Emergency Medical Technicians and as Immunization Back-up Technicians.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 1710I1003X sits
- Group: Other Service Providers — code 22 of 38 in the group
- Classification: Military Health Care Provider 171000000X
- Specialization: Independent Duty Medical Technicians 1710I1003X
Choose 1710I1003X over the general Military Health Care Provider code (171000000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in independent duty medical technicians; 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
1710I1003X has no entry in the CMS Medicare Provider and Supplier Taxonomy Crosswalk. That usually means Medicare does not enroll this kind of provider under its own specialty — the provider can still hold an NPI and use this code on claims to other payers.
Related codes
| Code | Military Health Care Provider — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 171000000X | Military Health Care Provider |
| 1710I1002X | Independent Duty Corpsman |
History of 1710I1003X
1710I1003X was added to the code set in 2005.
- 2005-07-01 — new
Similar codes in other groups
If 1710I1003X 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:
- 207PE0004X Emergency Medical Services (Emergency Medicine) Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 207PT0002X Medical Toxicology (Emergency Medicine) Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 202C00000X Independent Medical Examiner Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 207RX0202X Medical Oncology Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 207SG0207X Medical Biochemical Genetics (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 207SG0205X Ph.D. Medical Genetics Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
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Using 1710I1003X
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). Checked 2026-10-24. Methodology.