Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians / 207ZC0008X

Individual · specialization · Medicare specialty 22

207ZC0008X Clinical Informatics (Pathology) Physician

207ZC0008X is the taxonomy code for Clinical Informatics, 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.

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  1. 1Taxonomy code 207ZC0008X
  2. 2Level Specialization
  3. 3Medicare specialty 22 Physician/Pathology
  4. 4Codes in this group 238
Code
207ZC0008X
specialization
NPI type
Type 1
individual
Medicare specialty
22
14,667 enrolled
NUCC change log
1 change
latest 2014

Definition

Physicians who practice Clinical Informatics collaborate with other health care and information technology professionals to analyze, design, implement and evaluate information and communication systems that enhance individual and population health outcomes, improve patient care, and strengthen the clinician-patient relationship. Clinical Informaticians use their knowledge of patient care combined with their understanding of informatics concepts, methods, and tools to: assess information and knowledge needs of health care professionals and patients; characterize, evaluate, and refine clinical processes; develop, implement, and refine clinical decision support systems; and lead or participate in the procurement, customization, development, implementation, management, evaluation, and continuous improvement of clinical information systems.

— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1

Where 207ZC0008X sits

Choose 207ZC0008X over the general Pathology code when the provider's training or certification is specifically in clinical informatics; 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 207ZC0008X 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; 207ZC0006X Clinical 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

CodePathology — other specializations
207ZP0102XAnatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology
207ZB0001XBlood Banking & Transfusion Medicine
207ZP0104XChemical Pathology
207ZC0006XClinical Pathology
207ZP0105XClinical Pathology/Laboratory Medicine
207ZC0500XCytopathology

The nearest 6 of 15 other codes under Pathology; all are on the group page.

History of 207ZC0008X

207ZC0008X was added to the code set in 2014.

Similar codes in other groups

If 207ZC0008X 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:

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Using 207ZC0008X

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.