Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians / 207XX0005X
Individual · specialization · Medicare specialty 02
207XX0005X Sports Medicine (Orthopaedic Surgery) Physician
207XX0005X is the taxonomy code for Sports Medicine, a specialization of Orthopaedic Surgery, 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 02, Physician/General Surgery, under which 27,817 practitioners are enrolled, and to 2 other specialties listed below.
- 1Taxonomy code 207XX0005X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty 02 Physician/General Surgery
- 4Codes in this group 238
Definition
An orthopaedic surgeon trained in sports medicine provides appropriate care for all structures of the musculoskeletal system directly affected by participation in sporting activity. This specialist is proficient in areas including conditioning, training and fitness, athletic performance and the impact of dietary supplements, pharmaceuticals, and nutrition on performance and health, coordination of care within the team setting utilizing other health care professionals, field evaluation and management, soft tissue biomechanics and injury healing and repair. Knowledge and understanding of the principles and techniques of rehabilitation, athletic equipment and orthotic devices enables the specialist to prevent and manage athletic injuries.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 207XX0005X sits
- Group: Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians — code 115 of 238 in the group
- Classification: Orthopaedic Surgery 207X00000X
- Specialization: Sports Medicine 207XX0005X
Choose 207XX0005X over the general Orthopaedic Surgery code (207X00000X) 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 207XX0005X to Medicare specialty 02 (Physician/General Surgery) and Medicare specialty 20 (Physician/Orthopedic Surgery) and Medicare specialty 23 (Physician/Sports Medicine). That specialty — not the taxonomy code itself — is what Medicare enrollment records and uses for payment. 27,817 practitioners are enrolled under it nationally, and 33 other taxonomy codes map to the same specialty.
Other codes under the same Medicare specialty: 204E00000X Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery (D.M.D.); 204F00000X Transplant Surgery Physician; 207T00000X Neurological Surgery Physician; 207X00000X Orthopaedic Surgery Physician; 207XP3100X Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery Physician; 207XS0106X Orthopaedic Hand Surgery Physician; 207XS0114X Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery Physician; 207XS0117X Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Physician; and 25 more.
Related codes
| Code | Orthopaedic Surgery — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 207XS0117X | Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine |
| 207XX0801X | Orthopaedic Trauma |
| 207XP3100X | Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery |
The nearest 3 of 7 other codes under Orthopaedic Surgery; all are on the group page.
History of 207XX0005X
NUCC's earliest recorded change to 207XX0005X is from 2007 (definition changed, source changed).
- 2007-07-01 — definition changed, source changed
Similar codes in other groups
If 207XX0005X 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 207XX0005X
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.