Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians / 2086S0102X
Individual · specialization · Medicare specialty 02
2086S0102X Surgical Critical Care Physician
2086S0102X is the taxonomy code for Surgical Critical Care, 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.
- 1Taxonomy code 2086S0102X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty 02 Physician/General Surgery
- 4Codes in this group 238
Definition
A surgeon with expertise in the management of the critically ill and postoperative patient, particularly the trauma victim, who specializes in critical care medicine diagnoses, treats and supports patients with multiple organ dysfunction. This specialist may have administrative responsibilities for intensive care units and may also facilitate and coordinate patient care among the primary physician, the critical care staff and other specialists.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 2086S0102X sits
- Group: Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians — code 230 of 238 in the group
- Classification: Surgery 208600000X
- Specialization: Surgical Critical Care 2086S0102X
Choose 2086S0102X over the general Surgery code (208600000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in surgical critical care; 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 2086S0102X to Medicare specialty 02 (Physician/General 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 | Surgery — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 2086P0122X | Physician Nutrition Specialist |
| 2086S0122X | Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery |
| 2086S0105X | Surgery of the Hand |
| 2086X0206X | Surgical Oncology |
| 2086S0127X | Trauma Surgery |
| 2086S0129X | Vascular Surgery |
The nearest 6 of 9 other codes under Surgery; all are on the group page.
History of 2086S0102X
NUCC's earliest recorded change to 2086S0102X is from 2007 (definition added, source added), and has been revised 1 time since.
- 2007-07-01 — definition added, source added
- 2011-07-01 — modified source
Similar codes in other groups
If 2086S0102X 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:
- 133VN1401X Pediatric Critical Care Nutrition Registered Dietitian (Dietary & Nutritional Service Providers)
- 163WC0200X Critical Care Medicine Registered Nurse (Nursing Service Providers)
- 163WM0705X Medical-Surgical Registered Nurse (Nursing Service Providers)
- 1835C0205X Critical Care Pharmacist (Pharmacy Service Providers)
- 364SC0200X Critical Care Medicine Clinical Nurse Specialist (Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers)
- 364SM0705X Medical-Surgical Clinical Nurse Specialist (Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers)
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Using 2086S0102X
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.