Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians / 207NS0135X
Individual · specialization · Medicare specialty 07
207NS0135X Procedural Dermatology Physician
207NS0135X is the taxonomy code for Procedural Dermatology, a specialization of Dermatology, 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 07, Physician/Dermatology, under which 14,942 practitioners are enrolled.
- 1Taxonomy code 207NS0135X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty 07 Physician/Dermatology
- 4Codes in this group 238
Definition
Procedural Dermatology, a subspecialty of Dermatology, encompassing a wide variety of surgical procedures and methods to remove or modify skin tissue for health or cosmetic benefit. These methods include scalpel surgery, laser surgery, chemical surgery, cryosurgery (liquid nitrogen), electrosurgery, aspiration surgery, liposuction, injection of filler substances, and Mohs micrographic controlled surgery (a special technique for the removal of growths, especially skin cancers).
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 207NS0135X sits
- Group: Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians — code 18 of 238 in the group
- Classification: Dermatology 207N00000X
- Specialization: Procedural Dermatology 207NS0135X
Choose 207NS0135X over the general Dermatology code (207N00000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in procedural dermatology; 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 207NS0135X to Medicare specialty 07 (Physician/Dermatology). That specialty — not the taxonomy code itself — is what Medicare enrollment records and uses for payment. 14,942 practitioners are enrolled under it nationally, and 5 other taxonomy codes map to the same specialty.
Other codes under the same Medicare specialty: 207N00000X Dermatology Physician; 207ND0101X MOHS-Micrographic Surgery Physician; 207ND0900X Dermatopathology Physician; 207NI0002X Clinical & Laboratory Dermatological Immunology Physician; 207NP0225X Pediatric Dermatology Physician.
Related codes
| Code | Dermatology — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 207ND0900X | Dermatopathology |
| 207ND0101X | MOHS-Micrographic Surgery |
| 207NP0225X | Pediatric Dermatology |
The nearest 3 of 5 other codes under Dermatology; all are on the group page.
History of 207NS0135X
NUCC's earliest recorded change to 207NS0135X is from 2008 (definition added, source added, title changed).
- 2008-01-01 — definition added, source added, title changed
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Using 207NS0135X
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.