Other Service Providers / 171400000X
Individual · classification
171400000X Health & Wellness Coach
171400000X is the taxonomy code for Health & Wellness Coach, 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 171400000X
- 2Level Classification
- 3Medicare specialty Not in the crosswalk
- 4Codes in this group 38
Definition
The Health & Wellness Coach is trained in motivational theories, strategies, and communication techniques, which are used to assist patients to develop intrinsic motivation and obtain skills to create sustainable change for improved health and well-being. Health and wellness coaching is a patient-centered approach wherein patients at least partially determine their goals, use self-discovery or active learning processes together with content education to work toward their goals, and self-monitor behaviors to increase accountability, all within the context of an interpersonal relationship with a coach.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 171400000X sits
- Group: Other Service Providers — code 11 of 38 in the group
- Classification: Health & Wellness Coach 171400000X
Health & Wellness Coach has no specializations, so 171400000X is the only code for it. A provider may report more than one taxonomy code on an NPI but marks one as primary.
Medicare
171400000X 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
No other codes share the classification Health & Wellness Coach. The rest of Other Service Providers is on the group page.
History of 171400000X
171400000X was added to the code set in 2021.
- 2021-01-01 — new
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Using 171400000X
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.