Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians / 208800000X
Individual · classification · Medicare specialty 34
208800000X Urology Physician
208800000X is the taxonomy code for Urology, 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 34, Physician/Urology, under which 11,621 practitioners are enrolled.
- 1Taxonomy code 208800000X
- 2Level Classification
- 3Medicare specialty 34 Physician/Urology
- 4Codes in this group 238
Definition
A urologist manages benign and malignant medical and surgical disorders of the genitourinary system and the adrenal gland. This specialist has comprehensive knowledge of and skills in endoscopic, percutaneous and open surgery of congenital and acquired conditions of the urinary and reproductive systems and their contiguous structures.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 208800000X sits
- Group: Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians — code 236 of 238 in the group
- Classification: Urology 208800000X
This is the general code for Urology. 2 more specific codes sit beneath it; pick one of those when the provider's training or certification matches it, and this one otherwise. A provider may report more than one taxonomy code on an NPI but marks one as primary.
Medicare
CMS's taxonomy crosswalk links 208800000X to Medicare specialty 34 (Physician/Urology). That specialty — not the taxonomy code itself — is what Medicare enrollment records and uses for payment. 11,621 practitioners are enrolled under it nationally, and 2 other taxonomy codes map to the same specialty.
Other codes under the same Medicare specialty: 2088F0040X Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery (Urology) Physician; 2088P0231X Pediatric Urology Physician.
Related codes
| Code | Urology — specializations |
|---|---|
| 2088F0040X | Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery |
| 2088P0231X | Pediatric Urology |
History of 208800000X
NUCC's earliest recorded change to 208800000X is from 2007 (definition added, source added).
- 2007-07-01 — definition added, source added
Similar codes in other groups
If 208800000X 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:
- 163WU0100X Urology Registered Nurse (Nursing Service Providers)
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Using 208800000X
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.