Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians / 207RS0010X
Individual · specialization · Medicare specialty 11
207RS0010X Sports Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician
207RS0010X is the taxonomy code for Sports 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 207RS0010X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty 11 Physician/Internal Medicine
- 4Codes in this group 238
Definition
An internist 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 healthcare of the individual.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 207RS0010X sits
- Group: Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians — code 71 of 238 in the group
- Classification: Internal Medicine 207R00000X
- Specialization: Sports Medicine 207RS0010X
Choose 207RS0010X over the general Internal Medicine code (207R00000X) 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 207RS0010X to Medicare specialty 11 (Physician/Internal Medicine) and Medicare specialty 23 (Physician/Sports 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 34 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 26 more.
Related codes
| Code | Internal Medicine — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 207RP1001X | Pulmonary Disease |
| 207RR0500X | Rheumatology |
| 207RS0012X | Sleep Medicine |
| 207RT0003X | Transplant Hepatology |
The nearest 4 of 30 other codes under Internal Medicine; all are on the group page.
History of 207RS0010X
NUCC's earliest recorded change to 207RS0010X 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 207RS0010X 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 207RS0010X
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.