Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians / 207YX0007X
Individual · specialization · Medicare specialty 04
207YX0007X Plastic Surgery within the Head & Neck (Otolaryngology) Physician
207YX0007X is the taxonomy code for Plastic Surgery within the Head & Neck, a specialization of Otolaryngology, 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 04, Physician/Otolaryngology, under which 11,444 practitioners are enrolled.
- 1Taxonomy code 207YX0007X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty 04 Physician/Otolaryngology
- 4Codes in this group 238
Definition
An otolaryngologist with additional training in plastic and reconstructive procedures within the head, face, neck and associated structures, including cutaneous head and neck oncology and reconstruction, management of maxillofacial trauma, soft tissue repair and neural surgery. The field is diverse and involves a wide age range of patients, from the newborn to the aged. While both cosmetic and reconstructive surgeries are practiced, there are many additional procedures which interface with them.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 207YX0007X sits
- Group: Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians — code 122 of 238 in the group
- Classification: Otolaryngology 207Y00000X
- Specialization: Plastic Surgery within the Head & Neck 207YX0007X
Choose 207YX0007X over the general Otolaryngology code (207Y00000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in plastic surgery within the head & neck; 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 207YX0007X to Medicare specialty 04 (Physician/Otolaryngology). That specialty — not the taxonomy code itself — is what Medicare enrollment records and uses for payment. 11,444 practitioners are enrolled under it nationally, and 7 other taxonomy codes map to the same specialty.
Other codes under the same Medicare specialty: 207Y00000X Otolaryngology Physician; 207YP0228X Pediatric Otolaryngology Physician; 207YS0012X Sleep Medicine (Otolaryngology) Physician; 207YS0123X Facial Plastic Surgery Physician; 207YX0602X Otolaryngic Allergy Physician; 207YX0901X Otology & Neurotology Physician; 207YX0905X Otolaryngology/Facial Plastic Surgery Physician.
Related codes
| Code | Otolaryngology — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 207YX0905X | Otolaryngology/Facial Plastic Surgery |
| 207YX0901X | Otology & Neurotology |
| 207YP0228X | Pediatric Otolaryngology |
| 207YS0012X | Sleep Medicine |
The nearest 4 of 7 other codes under Otolaryngology; all are on the group page.
History of 207YX0007X
NUCC's earliest recorded change to 207YX0007X is from 2007 (definition added, source added).
- 2007-07-01 — definition added, source added
Similar codes in other groups
If 207YX0007X 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:
- 1223S0112X Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentist) (Dental Providers)
- 163WX0601X Otorhinolaryngology & Head-Neck Registered Nurse (Nursing Service Providers)
- 163WS0121X Plastic Surgery Registered Nurse (Nursing Service Providers)
- 213ES0103X Foot & Ankle Surgery Podiatrist (Podiatric Medicine & Surgery Service Providers)
- 213ES0131X Foot Surgery Podiatrist (Podiatric Medicine & Surgery Service Providers)
- 261QS0132X Ophthalmologic Surgery Clinic/Center (Ambulatory Health Care Facilities)
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Using 207YX0007X
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.