Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians / 207ZC0006X
Individual · specialization · Medicare specialty 22
207ZC0006X Clinical Pathology Physician
207ZC0006X is the taxonomy code for Clinical Pathology, a specialization of Pathology, 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 22, Physician/Pathology, under which 14,667 practitioners are enrolled.
- 1Taxonomy code 207ZC0006X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty 22 Physician/Pathology
- 4Codes in this group 238
Definition
A pathologist deals with the causes and nature of disease and contributes to diagnosis, prognosis and treatment through knowledge gained by the laboratory application of the biologic, chemical and physical sciences. A pathologist uses information gathered from the microscopic examination of tissue specimens, cells and body fluids, and from clinical laboratory tests on body fluids and secretions for the diagnosis, exclusion and monitoring of disease.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 207ZC0006X sits
- Group: Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians — code 131 of 238 in the group
- Classification: Pathology
- Specialization: Clinical Pathology 207ZC0006X
Choose 207ZC0006X over the general Pathology code when the provider's training or certification is specifically in clinical pathology; 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 207ZC0006X to Medicare specialty 22 (Physician/Pathology). That specialty — not the taxonomy code itself — is what Medicare enrollment records and uses for payment. 14,667 practitioners are enrolled under it nationally, and 15 other taxonomy codes map to the same specialty.
Other codes under the same Medicare specialty: 207ZB0001X Blood Banking & Transfusion Medicine Physician; 207ZC0008X Clinical Informatics (Pathology) Physician; 207ZC0500X Cytopathology Physician; 207ZD0900X Dermatopathology (Pathology) Physician; 207ZF0201X Forensic Pathology Physician; 207ZH0000X Hematology (Pathology) Physician; 207ZI0100X Immunopathology Physician; 207ZM0300X Medical Microbiology Physician; and 7 more.
Related codes
| Code | Pathology — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 207ZB0001X | Blood Banking & Transfusion Medicine |
| 207ZP0104X | Chemical Pathology |
| 207ZC0008X | Clinical Informatics |
| 207ZP0105X | Clinical Pathology/Laboratory Medicine |
| 207ZC0500X | Cytopathology |
| 207ZD0900X | Dermatopathology |
The nearest 6 of 15 other codes under Pathology; all are on the group page.
History of 207ZC0006X
207ZC0006X was added to the code set in 2007, and has been revised 1 time since.
- 2007-07-01 — new
- 2009-07-01 — definition reformatted
Similar codes in other groups
If 207ZC0006X 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:
- 103G00000X Clinical Neuropsychologist (Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers)
- 103GC0700X Clinical Neuropsychologist (Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers)
- 103TC0700X Clinical Psychologist (Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers)
- 103TC2200X Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychologist (Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers)
- 1041C0700X Clinical Social Worker (Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers)
- 1223P0106X Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology Dentistry (Dental Providers)
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Using 207ZC0006X
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.