Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians / 207Q00000X
Individual · classification · Medicare specialty 08
207Q00000X Family Medicine Physician
207Q00000X is the taxonomy code for Family 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 08, Physician/Family Practice, under which 116,530 practitioners are enrolled.
- 1Taxonomy code 207Q00000X
- 2Level Classification
- 3Medicare specialty 08 Physician/Family Practice
- 4Codes in this group 238
Definition
Family Medicine is the medical specialty which is concerned with the total health care of the individual and the family. It is the specialty in breadth which integrates the biological, clinical, and behavioral sciences. The scope of family medicine is not limited by age, sex, organ system, or disease entity.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 207Q00000X sits
- Group: Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians — code 27 of 238 in the group
- Classification: Family Medicine 207Q00000X
This is the general code for Family Medicine. 10 more specific codes sit beneath it; pick one of those when the provider's training or certification matches it, and this one otherwise. A provider may report more than one taxonomy code on an NPI but marks one as primary.
Medicare
CMS's taxonomy crosswalk links 207Q00000X to Medicare specialty 08 (Physician/Family Practice). That specialty — not the taxonomy code itself — is what Medicare enrollment records and uses for payment. 116,530 practitioners are enrolled under it nationally, and 9 other taxonomy codes map to the same specialty.
Other codes under the same Medicare specialty: 207QA0000X Adolescent Medicine (Family Medicine) Physician; 207QA0401X Addiction Medicine (Family Medicine) Physician; 207QA0505X Adult Medicine Physician; 207QB0002X Obesity Medicine (Family Medicine) Physician; 207QD0401X Diabetology (Family Medicine) Physician; 207QG0300X Geriatric Medicine (Family Medicine) Physician; 207QH0002X Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Family Medicine) Physician; 207QS0010X Sports Medicine (Family Medicine) Physician; and 1 more.
Related codes
| Code | Family Medicine — specializations |
|---|---|
| 207QA0401X | Addiction Medicine |
| 207QA0000X | Adolescent Medicine |
| 207QA0505X | Adult Medicine |
| 207QD0401X | Diabetology |
| 207QG0300X | Geriatric Medicine |
| 207QH0002X | Hospice and Palliative Medicine |
| 207QB0002X | Obesity Medicine |
| 207QP0002X | Physician Nutrition Specialist |
| 207QS1201X | Sleep Medicine |
| 207QS0010X | Sports Medicine |
History of 207Q00000X
NUCC's earliest recorded change to 207Q00000X is from 2007 (changed title), and has been revised 2 times since.
- 2007-01-01 — changed title
- 2007-07-01 — added definition, added source
- 2017-07-01 — modified definition
Similar codes in other groups
If 207Q00000X 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:
- 106H00000X Marriage & Family Therapist (Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers)
- 103TF0000X Family Psychologist (Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers)
- 125Q00000X Oral Medicine Dentistry (Dental Providers)
- 163WC0200X Critical Care Medicine Registered Nurse (Nursing Service Providers)
- 173000000X Legal Medicine (Other Service Providers)
- 1835E0208X Emergency Medicine Pharmacist (Pharmacy Service Providers)
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Using 207Q00000X
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.