Podiatric Medicine & Surgery Service Providers / 213E00000X
Individual · classification · Medicare specialty 48
213E00000X Podiatrist
213E00000X is the taxonomy code for Podiatrist, in the NUCC group “Podiatric Medicine & Surgery Service Providers”. It is a code for individual providers — the kind used on a Type 1 NPI. Medicare maps it to specialty 48, Podiatry, under which 17,545 practitioners are enrolled.
- 1Taxonomy code 213E00000X
- 2Level Classification
- 3Medicare specialty 48 Podiatry
- 4Codes in this group 9
Definition
A podiatrist is a person qualified by a Doctor of Podiatric Medicine (D.P.M.) degree, licensed by the state, and practicing within the scope of that license. Podiatrists diagnose and treat foot diseases and deformities. They perform medical, surgical and other operative procedures, prescribe corrective devices and prescribe and administer drugs and physical therapy.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 213E00000X sits
- Group: Podiatric Medicine & Surgery Service Providers — code 2 of 9 in the group
- Classification: Podiatrist 213E00000X
This is the general code for Podiatrist. 7 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 213E00000X to Medicare specialty 48 (Podiatry). That specialty — not the taxonomy code itself — is what Medicare enrollment records and uses for payment. 17,545 practitioners are enrolled under it nationally, and 7 other taxonomy codes map to the same specialty.
Other codes under the same Medicare specialty: 213EG0000X Podiatrist; 213EP0504X Public Medicine Podiatrist; 213EP1101X Primary Podiatric Medicine Podiatrist; 213ER0200X Radiology Podiatrist; 213ES0000X Sports Medicine Podiatrist; 213ES0103X Foot & Ankle Surgery Podiatrist; 213ES0131X Foot Surgery Podiatrist.
Related codes
| Code | Podiatrist — specializations |
|---|---|
| 213ES0103X | Foot & Ankle Surgery — Medicare 48 Podiatry |
| 213ES0131X | Foot Surgery — Medicare 48 Podiatry |
| 213EG0000X | General Practice |
| 213EP1101X | Primary Podiatric Medicine |
| 213EP0504X | Public Medicine |
| 213ER0200X | Radiology |
| 213ES0000X | Sports Medicine |
History of 213E00000X
NUCC's notes record no dated changes for 213E00000X. 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.
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Using 213E00000X
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.