Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians / 207LH0002X
Individual · specialization · Medicare specialty 05
207LH0002X Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician
207LH0002X is the taxonomy code for Hospice and Palliative Medicine, a specialization of Anesthesiology, 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 05, Physician/Anesthesiology, under which 50,626 practitioners are enrolled, and to 1 other specialty listed below.
- 1Taxonomy code 207LH0002X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty 05 Physician/Anesthesiology
- 4Codes in this group 238
Definition
An anesthesiologist with special knowledge and skills to prevent and relieve the suffering experienced by patients with life-limiting illnesses. This specialist works with an interdisciplinary hospice or palliative care team to maximize quality of life while addressing physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs of both patient and family throughout the course of the disease, through the dying process, and beyond for the family. This specialist has expertise in the assessment of patients with advanced disease; the relief of distressing symptoms; the coordination of interdisciplinary patient and family-centered care in diverse venues; the use of specialized care systems including hospice; the management of the imminently dying patient; and legal and ethical decision making in end-of-life care.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 207LH0002X sits
- Group: Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians — code 7 of 238 in the group
- Classification: Anesthesiology 207L00000X
- Specialization: Hospice and Palliative Medicine 207LH0002X
Choose 207LH0002X over the general Anesthesiology code (207L00000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in hospice and palliative medicine; the general code covers the classification as a whole. A provider may report more than one taxonomy code on an NPI but marks one as primary.
Medicare
CMS's taxonomy crosswalk links 207LH0002X to Medicare specialty 05 (Physician/Anesthesiology) and Medicare specialty 17 (Physician/Hospice and Palliative Care). That specialty — not the taxonomy code itself — is what Medicare enrollment records and uses for payment. 50,626 practitioners are enrolled under it nationally, and 11 other taxonomy codes map to the same specialty.
Other codes under the same Medicare specialty: 207L00000X Anesthesiology Physician; 207LA0401X Addiction Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician; 207LC0200X Critical Care Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician; 207LP2900X Pain Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician; 207LP3000X Pediatric Anesthesiology Physician; 207PH0002X Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Emergency Medicine) Physician; 207QH0002X Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Family Medicine) Physician; 207RH0002X Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician; and 3 more.
Related codes
| Code | Anesthesiology — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 207L00000X | Anesthesiology Physician |
| 207LA0401X | Addiction Medicine |
| 207LC0200X | Critical Care Medicine |
| 207LP2900X | Pain Medicine |
| 207LP3000X | Pediatric Anesthesiology |
| 207LP4000X | Physician Nutrition Specialist |
History of 207LH0002X
207LH0002X was added to the code set in 2007.
- 2007-01-01 — new
Similar codes in other groups
If 207LH0002X 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:
- 125Q00000X Oral Medicine Dentistry (Dental Providers)
- 163WC0200X Critical Care Medicine Registered Nurse (Nursing Service Providers)
- 163WH1000X Hospice Registered Nurse (Nursing Service Providers)
- 173000000X Legal Medicine (Other Service Providers)
- 1835E0208X Emergency Medicine Pharmacist (Pharmacy Service Providers)
- 364SC0200X Critical Care Medicine Clinical Nurse Specialist (Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers)
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Using 207LH0002X
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.