Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians / 204C00000X
Individual · classification · Medicare specialty 12
204C00000X Sports Medicine (Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine) Physician
204C00000X is the taxonomy code for Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine, Sports Medicine, in the NUCC group “Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians”. It is a code for individual providers — the kind used on a Type 1 NPI. Medicare maps it to specialty 12, Physician/Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, under which 1,118 practitioners are enrolled, and to 1 other specialty listed below.
- 1Taxonomy code 204C00000X
- 2Level Classification
- 3Medicare specialty 12 Physician/Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine
- 4Codes in this group 238
Definition
A Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine physician trained to be responsible for the continuous care in the field of sports medicine encompasses increased knowledge and understanding of osteopathic principles and practice and heightened technical skills of osteopathic manipulative medicine and integrates each of these into the management of the individual engaged in physical exercise (sports) whether as an individual or in team participation.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 204C00000X sits
- Group: Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians — code 83 of 238 in the group
- Classification: Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine, Sports Medicine 204C00000X
Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine, Sports Medicine has no specializations, so 204C00000X 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 204C00000X to Medicare specialty 12 (Physician/Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine) and Medicare specialty 23 (Physician/Sports Medicine). That specialty — not the taxonomy code itself — is what Medicare enrollment records and uses for payment. 1,118 practitioners are enrolled under it nationally, and 10 other taxonomy codes map to the same specialty.
Other codes under the same Medicare specialty: 207PS0010X Sports Medicine (Emergency Medicine) Physician; 207QS0010X Sports Medicine (Family Medicine) Physician; 207RS0010X Sports Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician; 207XX0005X Sports Medicine (Orthopaedic Surgery) Physician; 2080S0010X Pediatric Sports Medicine Physician; 2081P0301X Brain Injury Medicine (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) Physician; 2081S0010X Sports Medicine (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) Physician; 2083S0010X Sports Medicine (Preventive Medicine) Physician; and 2 more.
Related codes
No other codes share the classification Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine, Sports Medicine. The rest of Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians is on the group page.
History of 204C00000X
NUCC's notes record no dated changes for 204C00000X. The code set is republished every January and July, when codes are added, retitled or marked inactive; this page reflects version 26.1, so check the NUCC site if you are reading it after the next release.
Similar codes in other groups
If 204C00000X 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:
- 103TE1100X Exercise & Sports Psychologist (Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers)
- 111NS0005X Sports Physician Chiropractor (Chiropractic Providers)
- 125Q00000X Oral Medicine Dentistry (Dental Providers)
- 133VN1501X Sports Dietetics Nutrition Registered Dietitian (Dietary & Nutritional Service Providers)
- 152WS0006X Sports Vision Optometrist (Eye and Vision Services Providers)
- 163WC0200X Critical Care Medicine Registered Nurse (Nursing Service Providers)
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Using 204C00000X
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.