Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians / 2086H0002X
Individual · specialization · Medicare specialty 02
2086H0002X Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Surgery) Physician
2086H0002X is the taxonomy code for Hospice and Palliative Medicine, a specialization of 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 2086H0002X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty 02 Physician/General Surgery
- 4Codes in this group 238
Definition
A surgeon with special knowledge and skills to prevent and relieve the suffering experienced by patients with life-limiting illnesses. This specialist works with an interdisciplinary hospice or palliative care team to maximize quality of life while addressing physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs of both patient and family throughout the course of the disease, through the dying process, and beyond for the family. This specialist has expertise in the assessment of patients with advanced disease; the relief of distressing symptoms; the coordination of interdisciplinary patient and family-centered care in diverse venues; the use of specialized care systems including hospice; the management of the imminently dying patient; and legal and ethical decision making in end-of-life care.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 2086H0002X sits
- Group: Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians — code 225 of 238 in the group
- Classification: Surgery 208600000X
- Specialization: Hospice and Palliative Medicine 2086H0002X
Choose 2086H0002X over the general Surgery code (208600000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in hospice and palliative 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 2086H0002X to Medicare specialty 02 (Physician/General Surgery) and Medicare specialty 17 (Physician/Hospice and Palliative Care). 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 30 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 22 more.
Related codes
| Code | Surgery — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 208600000X | Surgery Physician |
| 2086S0120X | Pediatric Surgery |
| 2086P0122X | Physician Nutrition Specialist |
| 2086S0122X | Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery |
The nearest 4 of 9 other codes under Surgery; all are on the group page.
History of 2086H0002X
2086H0002X was added to the code set in 2007.
- 2007-01-01 — new
Similar codes in other groups
If 2086H0002X 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:
- 125Q00000X Oral Medicine Dentistry (Dental Providers)
- 163WC0200X Critical Care Medicine Registered Nurse (Nursing Service Providers)
- 163WH1000X Hospice Registered Nurse (Nursing Service Providers)
- 173000000X Legal Medicine (Other Service Providers)
- 1835E0208X Emergency Medicine Pharmacist (Pharmacy Service Providers)
- 364SC0200X Critical Care Medicine Clinical Nurse Specialist (Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers)
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Using 2086H0002X
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.