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Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians / 208VP0000X

Individual · specialization · Medicare specialty 72

208VP0000X Pain Medicine Physician

208VP0000X is the taxonomy code for Pain Medicine, a specialization of Pain Medicine, 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 72, Physician/Pain Management, under which 3,705 practitioners are enrolled.

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  1. 1Taxonomy code 208VP0000X
  2. 2Level Specialization
  3. 3Medicare specialty 72 Physician/Pain Management
  4. 4Codes in this group 238
Code
208VP0000X
specialization
NPI type
Type 1
individual
Medicare specialty
72
3,705 enrolled
NUCC change log
0 changes
none recorded

Definition

Pain Medicine is a primary medical specialty based on a distinct body of knowledge and a well-defined scope of clinical practice that is founded on science, research and education. It is concerned with the study of pain, the prevention of pain, and the evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation of persons in pain. A comprehensive evaluation incorporates the physical, psychological, cognitive and socio-cultural contributions to pain. The treatment protocol may include pharmacological, invasive, behavioral, cognitive, rehabilitative and complementary strategies provided in a concurrent focused and patient specific manner. The pain medicine physician often serves the patient as a frontline physician regarding their pain, but also may serve as a consultant to other physicians, direct an interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary treatment team, conduct research, or advocate for the patient's pain care with public and private agencies. The Pain Medicine physician may work in variety of settings including office, clinic, hospital, university, or governmental/public agencies.

— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1

Where 208VP0000X sits

Choose 208VP0000X over the general Pain Medicine code when the provider's training or certification is specifically in pain 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 208VP0000X to Medicare specialty 72 (Physician/Pain Management). That specialty — not the taxonomy code itself — is what Medicare enrollment records and uses for payment. 3,705 practitioners are enrolled under it nationally.

Related codes

CodePain Medicine — other specializations
208VP0014XInterventional Pain Medicine

History of 208VP0000X

NUCC's notes record no dated changes for 208VP0000X. The code set is republished every January and July, when codes are added, retitled or marked inactive; this page reflects version 26.1, so check the NUCC site if you are reading it after the next release.

Similar codes in other groups

If 208VP0000X 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 208VP0000X

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.