Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers / 221700000X
Individual · classification
221700000X Art Therapist
221700000X is the taxonomy code for Art Therapist, in the NUCC group “Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers”. It is a code for individual providers — the kind used on a Type 1 NPI. It has no entry in the CMS Medicare taxonomy crosswalk.
- 1Taxonomy code 221700000X
- 2Level Classification
- 3Medicare specialty Not in the crosswalk
- 4Codes in this group 82
Definition
(1) An individual who uses art to achieve the therapeutic goals of symptom relief, emotional integration, and recovery from or adjustment to illness or disability. (2) An art therapist uses a form of treatment that enables patients with mental or physical disabilities to use art as a way of expressing and dealing with feelings and inner conflicts. (3) An individual who uses arts modalities and creative processes during intentional intervention in therapeutic, rehabilitative, community, or educational settings to foster health, communication, and expression; promote the integration of physical, emotional, cognitive, and social functioning; enhance self-awareness; and facilitate change.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 221700000X sits
- Group: Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers — code 2 of 82 in the group
- Classification: Art Therapist 221700000X
Art Therapist has no specializations, so 221700000X is the only code for it. A provider may report more than one taxonomy code on an NPI but marks one as primary.
Medicare
221700000X has no entry in the CMS Medicare Provider and Supplier Taxonomy Crosswalk. That usually means Medicare does not enroll this kind of provider under its own specialty — the provider can still hold an NPI and use this code on claims to other payers.
Related codes
No other codes share the classification Art Therapist. The rest of Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers is on the group page.
History of 221700000X
NUCC's notes record no dated changes for 221700000X. 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 221700000X 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:
- 101200000X Drama Therapist (Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers)
- 106H00000X Marriage & Family Therapist (Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers)
- 102X00000X Poetry Therapist (Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers)
- 125K00000X Advanced Practice Dental Therapist (Dental Providers)
- 125J00000X Dental Therapist (Dental Providers)
- 163WM1400X Nurse Massage Therapist (NMT) (Nursing Service Providers)
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Using 221700000X
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). Checked 2026-10-24. Methodology.