Pharmacy Service Providers / 183700000X
Individual · classification
183700000X Pharmacy Technician
183700000X is the taxonomy code for Pharmacy Technician, in the NUCC group “Pharmacy 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 183700000X
- 2Level Classification
- 3Medicare specialty Not in the crosswalk
- 4Codes in this group 19
Definition
A person who works under the direct supervision of a licensed pharmacist and performs many pharmacy-related functions that do not require the professional judgment of a pharmacist.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 183700000X sits
- Group: Pharmacy Service Providers — code 19 of 19 in the group
- Classification: Pharmacy Technician 183700000X
Pharmacy Technician has no specializations, so 183700000X is the only code for it. A provider may report more than one taxonomy code on an NPI but marks one as primary.
Medicare
183700000X 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 Pharmacy Technician. The rest of Pharmacy Service Providers is on the group page.
History of 183700000X
NUCC's earliest recorded change to 183700000X is from 2006 (modified definition, modified source).
- 2006-01-01 — modified definition, modified source
Similar codes in other groups
If 183700000X 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:
- 332100000X Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Pharmacy (Suppliers)
- 332800000X Indian Health Service/Tribal/Urban Indian Health (I/T/U) Pharmacy (Suppliers)
- 332000000X Military/U.S. Coast Guard Pharmacy (Suppliers)
- 332900000X Non-Pharmacy Dispensing Site (Suppliers)
- 333600000X Pharmacy (Suppliers)
- 3336C0002X Clinic Pharmacy (Suppliers)
Find providers with 183700000X
Using 183700000X
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.