Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians / 207RH0002X
Individual · specialization · Medicare specialty 11
207RH0002X Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician
207RH0002X is the taxonomy code for Hospice and Palliative Medicine, a specialization of Internal 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 11, Physician/Internal Medicine, under which 128,064 practitioners are enrolled, and to 1 other specialty listed below.
- 1Taxonomy code 207RH0002X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty 11 Physician/Internal Medicine
- 4Codes in this group 238
Definition
An internal medicine physician 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 207RH0002X sits
- Group: Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians — code 59 of 238 in the group
- Classification: Internal Medicine 207R00000X
- Specialization: Hospice and Palliative Medicine 207RH0002X
Choose 207RH0002X over the general Internal Medicine code (207R00000X) 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 207RH0002X to Medicare specialty 11 (Physician/Internal Medicine) 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. 128,064 practitioners are enrolled under it nationally, and 31 other taxonomy codes map to the same specialty.
Other codes under the same Medicare specialty: 207QB0505X Diabetology (Internal Medicine) Physician; 207R00000X Internal Medicine Physician; 207RA0000X Adolescent Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician; 207RA0001X Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Physician; 207RA0201X Allergy & Immunology (Internal Medicine) Physician; 207RA0401X Addiction Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician; 207RB0002X Obesity Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician; 207RC0000X Cardiovascular Disease Physician; and 23 more.
Related codes
| Code | Internal Medicine — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 207RH0000X | Hematology |
| 207RH0003X | Hematology & Oncology |
| 207RI0008X | Hepatology |
| 207RH0005X | Hypertension Specialist |
| 207RI0200X | Infectious Disease |
| 207RI0011X | Interventional Cardiology |
The nearest 6 of 30 other codes under Internal Medicine; all are on the group page.
History of 207RH0002X
207RH0002X was added to the code set in 2007.
- 2007-01-01 — new
Similar codes in other groups
If 207RH0002X 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 207RH0002X
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.