Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians / 208VP0014X
Individual · specialization · Medicare specialty 09
208VP0014X Interventional Pain Medicine Physician
208VP0014X is the taxonomy code for Interventional 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 09, Physician/Interventional Pain Management, under which 1,795 practitioners are enrolled.
- 1Taxonomy code 208VP0014X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty 09 Physician/Interventional Pain Management
- 4Codes in this group 238
Definition
Interventional Pain Medicine is the discipline of medicine devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of pain and related disorders principally with the application of interventional techniques in managing subacute, chronic, persistent, and intractable pain, independently or in conjunction with other modalities of treatment.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 208VP0014X sits
- Group: Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians — code 124 of 238 in the group
- Classification: Pain Medicine
- Specialization: Interventional Pain Medicine 208VP0014X
Choose 208VP0014X over the general Pain Medicine code when the provider's training or certification is specifically in interventional 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 208VP0014X to Medicare specialty 09 (Physician/Interventional Pain Management). That specialty — not the taxonomy code itself — is what Medicare enrollment records and uses for payment. 1,795 practitioners are enrolled under it nationally.
Related codes
| Code | Pain Medicine — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 208VP0000X | Pain Medicine |
History of 208VP0014X
NUCC's notes record no dated changes for 208VP0014X. 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 208VP0014X 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)
- 1223X2210X Orofacial Pain Dentistry (Dental Providers)
- 163WC0200X Critical Care Medicine Registered Nurse (Nursing Service Providers)
- 163WP0000X Pain Management Registered Nurse (Nursing Service Providers)
- 173000000X Legal Medicine (Other Service Providers)
- 1835E0208X Emergency Medicine Pharmacist (Pharmacy Service Providers)
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Using 208VP0014X
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.