Other Service Providers / 176B00000X
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176B00000X Midwife
176B00000X is the taxonomy code for Midwife, 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 176B00000X
- 2Level Classification
- 3Medicare specialty Not in the crosswalk
- 4Codes in this group 38
Definition
A Midwife is a trained professional with special expertise in supporting women to maintain a healthy pregnancy birth, offering expert individualized care, education, counseling, and support to a woman and her newborn throughout the childbearing cycle. A Midwife is a skilled and independent practitioner who has undergone formalized training. Midwives are not required to be nurses and may be trained via multiple routes of education (apprenticeship, workshop, formal classes, or programs, etc., usually a combination). The educational background requirements and licensing requirements vary by state. The Midwife may or may not be certified by a state or national organization.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 176B00000X sits
- Group: Other Service Providers — code 19 of 38 in the group
- Classification: Midwife 176B00000X
Midwife has no specializations, so 176B00000X is the only code for it. A provider may report more than one taxonomy code on an NPI but marks one as primary.
Medicare
176B00000X 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 Midwife. The rest of Other Service Providers is on the group page.
History of 176B00000X
NUCC's earliest recorded change to 176B00000X is from 2007 (title changed, definition changed, source changed).
- 2007-07-01 — title changed, definition changed, source changed
Similar codes in other groups
If 176B00000X 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:
- 367A00000X Advanced Practice Midwife (Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers)
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Using 176B00000X
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.