Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians / 207PS0010X
Individual · specialization · Medicare specialty 23
207PS0010X Sports Medicine (Emergency Medicine) Physician
207PS0010X is the taxonomy code for Sports Medicine, a specialization of Emergency 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 23, Physician/Sports Medicine, under which 2,658 practitioners are enrolled, and to 1 other specialty listed below.
- 1Taxonomy code 207PS0010X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty 23 Physician/Sports Medicine
- 4Codes in this group 238
Definition
An emergency physician with special knowledge in sports medicine is responsible for continuous care in the field of sports medicine, not only for the enhancement of health and fitness, but also for the prevention and management of injury and illness. A sports medicine physician has knowledge and experience in the promotion of wellness and the role of exercise in promoting a healthy lifestyle. Knowledge of exercise physiology, biomechanics, nutrition, psychology, physical rehabilitation and epidemiology is essential to the practice of sports medicine.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 207PS0010X sits
- Group: Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians — code 25 of 238 in the group
- Classification: Emergency Medicine 207P00000X
- Specialization: Sports Medicine 207PS0010X
Choose 207PS0010X over the general Emergency Medicine code (207P00000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in sports 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 207PS0010X to Medicare specialty 23 (Physician/Sports Medicine) and Medicare specialty 93 (Physician/Emergency Medicine). That specialty — not the taxonomy code itself — is what Medicare enrollment records and uses for payment. 2,658 practitioners are enrolled under it nationally, and 16 other taxonomy codes map to the same specialty.
Other codes under the same Medicare specialty: 146E00000X Community Paramedic; 207P00000X Emergency Medicine Physician; 207PE0004X Emergency Medical Services (Emergency Medicine) Physician; 207PE0005X Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine (Emergency Medicine) Physician; 207PH0002X Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Emergency Medicine) Physician; 207PP0204X Pediatric Emergency Medicine (Emergency Medicine) Physician; 207PT0002X Medical Toxicology (Emergency Medicine) Physician; 204C00000X Sports Medicine (Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine) Physician; and 8 more.
Related codes
| Code | Emergency Medicine — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 207PH0002X | Hospice and Palliative Medicine |
| 207PT0002X | Medical Toxicology |
| 207PP0204X | Pediatric Emergency Medicine |
| 207PE0005X | Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine |
The nearest 4 of 6 other codes under Emergency Medicine; all are on the group page.
History of 207PS0010X
NUCC's earliest recorded change to 207PS0010X is from 2007 (added definition, added source), and has been revised 1 time since.
- 2007-07-01 — added definition, added source
- 2011-07-01 — modified source
Similar codes in other groups
If 207PS0010X 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 207PS0010X
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.