Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers / 2251S0007X
Individual · specialization · Medicare specialty 65
2251S0007X Sports Physical Therapist
2251S0007X is the taxonomy code for Sports, a specialization of Physical 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. Medicare maps it to specialty 65, Physical Therapist in Private Practice, under which 113,980 practitioners are enrolled.
- 1Taxonomy code 2251S0007X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty 65 Physical Therapist in Private Practice
- 4Codes in this group 82
Definition
A licensed physical therapist, including but not limited to an individual who is a Board Certified Specialist in Sports Physical Therapy, who has demonstrated specialized knowledge and skill in human anatomy and physiology, movement science, pathology and pathophysiology, medical and surgical intervention, and health and wellness, as well as rehabilitation/return to sports, management of acute injury/illness, medical and surgical consideration, injury prevention, and sports performance enhancement.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 2251S0007X sits
- Group: Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers — code 41 of 82 in the group
- Classification: Physical Therapist 225100000X
- Specialization: Sports 2251S0007X
Choose 2251S0007X over the general Physical Therapist code (225100000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in sports; 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 2251S0007X to Medicare specialty 65 (Physical Therapist in Private Practice). That specialty — not the taxonomy code itself — is what Medicare enrollment records and uses for payment. 113,980 practitioners are enrolled under it nationally, and 10 other taxonomy codes map to the same specialty.
Other codes under the same Medicare specialty: 225100000X Physical Therapist; 2251C2600X Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapist; 2251E1200X Ergonomics Physical Therapist; 2251E1300X Clinical Electrophysiology Physical Therapist; 2251G0304X Geriatric Physical Therapist; 2251H1200X Hand Physical Therapist; 2251H1300X Human Factors Physical Therapist; 2251N0400X Neurology Physical Therapist; and 2 more.
Related codes
| Code | Physical Therapist — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 2251N0400X | Neurology |
| 2251X0800X | Orthopedic |
| 2251P0200X | Pediatrics |
The nearest 3 of 10 other codes under Physical Therapist; all are on the group page.
History of 2251S0007X
NUCC's earliest recorded change to 2251S0007X is from 2020 (definition added).
- 2020-01-01 — definition added
Similar codes in other groups
If 2251S0007X 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:
- 207PS0010X Sports Medicine (Emergency Medicine) Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 207QS0010X Sports Medicine (Family Medicine) Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 207RS0010X Sports Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 204C00000X Sports Medicine (Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine) Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 207XX0005X Sports Medicine (Orthopaedic Surgery) Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 2080S0010X Pediatric Sports Medicine Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
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Using 2251S0007X
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.