Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians / 207RI0008X
Individual · specialization · Medicare specialty 11
207RI0008X Hepatology Physician
207RI0008X is the taxonomy code for Hepatology, 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.
- 1Taxonomy code 207RI0008X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty 11 Physician/Internal Medicine
- 4Codes in this group 238
Definition
The discipline of Hepatology encompasses the structure, function, and diseases of the liver and biliary tract. The American Board of Internal Medicine considers Hepatology part of the subspecialty of gastroenterology. Physicians who identify themselves as Hepatologists usually, but not always, have been trained in gastrointestinal programs.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 207RI0008X sits
- Group: Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians — code 58 of 238 in the group
- Classification: Internal Medicine 207R00000X
- Specialization: Hepatology 207RI0008X
Choose 207RI0008X over the general Internal Medicine code (207R00000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in hepatology; 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 207RI0008X to Medicare specialty 11 (Physician/Internal Medicine). 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 25 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 17 more.
Related codes
| Code | Internal Medicine — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 207RG0300X | Geriatric Medicine |
| 207RH0000X | Hematology |
| 207RH0003X | Hematology & Oncology |
| 207RH0002X | Hospice and Palliative Medicine |
| 207RH0005X | Hypertension Specialist |
| 207RI0200X | Infectious Disease |
The nearest 6 of 30 other codes under Internal Medicine; all are on the group page.
History of 207RI0008X
NUCC's notes record no dated changes for 207RI0008X. The code set is republished every January and July, when codes are added, retitled or marked inactive; this page reflects version 26.1, so check the NUCC site if you are reading it after the next release.
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Using 207RI0008X
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.