Other Service Providers / 174H00000X
Individual · classification · Medicare specialty D1
174H00000X Health Educator
174H00000X is the taxonomy code for Health Educator, in the NUCC group “Other Service Providers”. It is a code for individual providers — the kind used on a Type 1 NPI. Medicare maps it to specialty D1, Medicare Diabetes Preventive Program, under which 0 practitioners are enrolled.
- 1Taxonomy code 174H00000X
- 2Level Classification
- 3Medicare specialty D1 Medicare Diabetes Preventive Program
- 4Codes in this group 38
Definition
Health educators work in a variety of settings providing education to individuals or groups of individuals on healthy behaviors, wellness, and health-related topics with the goal of preventing diseases and health problems. Health educators generally require a bachelor's degree and may receive additional training, such as through mentoring, internships, or volunteer work.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 174H00000X sits
- Group: Other Service Providers — code 12 of 38 in the group
- Classification: Health Educator 174H00000X
Health Educator has no specializations, so 174H00000X is the only code for it. A provider may report more than one taxonomy code on an NPI but marks one as primary.
Medicare
CMS's taxonomy crosswalk links 174H00000X to Medicare specialty D1 (Medicare Diabetes Preventive Program). That specialty — not the taxonomy code itself — is what Medicare enrollment records and uses for payment. 0 practitioners are enrolled under it nationally.
Related codes
No other codes share the classification Health Educator. The rest of Other Service Providers is on the group page.
History of 174H00000X
174H00000X was added to the code set in 2009.
- 2009-07-01 — new
Similar codes in other groups
If 174H00000X 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:
- 163WD0400X Diabetes Educator Registered Nurse (Nursing Service Providers)
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Using 174H00000X
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.