Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians / 207QS0010X
Individual · specialization · Medicare specialty 08
207QS0010X Sports Medicine (Family Medicine) Physician
207QS0010X is the taxonomy code for Sports Medicine, a specialization of 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, and to 1 other specialty listed below.
- 1Taxonomy code 207QS0010X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty 08 Physician/Family Practice
- 4Codes in this group 238
Definition
A family medicine physician that is trained to be responsible for continuous care in the field of sports medicine, not only for the enhancement of health and fitness, but also for the prevention of injury and illness. A sports medicine physician must have knowledge and experience in the promotion of wellness and the prevention of injury. Knowledge about special areas of medicine such as exercise physiology, biomechanics, nutrition, psychology, physical rehabilitation, epidemiology, physical evaluation, injuries (treatment and prevention and referral practice) and the role of exercise in promoting a healthy lifestyle are essential to the practice of sports medicine. The sports medicine physician requires special education to provide the knowledge to improve the health care 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 207QS0010X sits
- Group: Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians — code 37 of 238 in the group
- Classification: Family Medicine 207Q00000X
- Specialization: Sports Medicine 207QS0010X
Choose 207QS0010X over the general Family Medicine code (207Q00000X) 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 207QS0010X to Medicare specialty 08 (Physician/Family Practice) and Medicare specialty 23 (Physician/Sports Medicine). 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 18 other taxonomy codes map to the same specialty.
Other codes under the same Medicare specialty: 207Q00000X Family Medicine Physician; 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; and 10 more.
Related codes
| Code | Family Medicine — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 207QB0002X | Obesity Medicine |
| 207QP0002X | Physician Nutrition Specialist |
| 207QS1201X | Sleep Medicine |
The nearest 3 of 10 other codes under Family Medicine; all are on the group page.
History of 207QS0010X
NUCC's earliest recorded change to 207QS0010X 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 207QS0010X 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 207QS0010X
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.