Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians / 2082S0099X
Individual · specialization · Medicare specialty 02
2082S0099X Plastic Surgery Within the Head and Neck (Plastic Surgery) Physician
2082S0099X is the taxonomy code for Plastic Surgery Within the Head and Neck, a specialization of Plastic 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 1 other specialty listed below.
- 1Taxonomy code 2082S0099X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty 02 Physician/General Surgery
- 4Codes in this group 238
Definition
A plastic surgeon 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 surgery is practiced, there are many additional procedures which interface with them.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 2082S0099X sits
- Group: Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians — code 177 of 238 in the group
- Classification: Plastic Surgery 208200000X
- Specialization: Plastic Surgery Within the Head and Neck 2082S0099X
Choose 2082S0099X over the general Plastic Surgery code (208200000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in plastic surgery within the head and 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 2082S0099X to Medicare specialty 02 (Physician/General Surgery) and Medicare specialty 24 (Physician/Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery). 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 24 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 16 more.
Related codes
| Code | Plastic Surgery — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 208200000X | Plastic Surgery Physician |
| 2082S0105X | Surgery of the Hand |
History of 2082S0099X
NUCC's earliest recorded change to 2082S0099X is from 2007 (definition changed, source added).
- 2007-07-01 — definition changed, source added
Similar codes in other groups
If 2082S0099X 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 2082S0099X
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.