Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers / 225X00000X
Individual · classification · Medicare specialty 67
225X00000X Occupational Therapist
225X00000X is the taxonomy code for Occupational 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 67, Occupational Therapist in Private Practice, under which 24,487 practitioners are enrolled.
- 1Taxonomy code 225X00000X
- 2Level Classification
- 3Medicare specialty 67 Occupational Therapist in Private Practice
- 4Codes in this group 82
Definition
An occupational therapist is a person who has graduated from an entry-level occupational therapy program accredited by the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE) or predecessor organizations, or approved by the World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT), or an equivalent international occupational therapy education program; has successfully completed a period of supervised fieldwork experience required by the occupational therapy program; has passed a nationally recognized entry-level examination for occupational therapists, and fulfills state requirements for licensure, certification, or registration. An occupational therapist provides interventions based on evaluation and which emphasize the therapeutic use of everyday life activities (i.e., occupations) with individuals or groups for the purpose of facilitating participation in roles and situations and in home, school, workplace, community and other settings. Occupational therapy services are provided for the purpose of promoting health and wellness and are provided to those who have or are at risk for developing an illness, injury, disease, disorder, condition, impairment, disability, activity limitation, or participation restriction. Occupational therapists address the physical, cognitive, psychosocial, sensory, and other aspects of occupational performance in a variety of contexts to support engagement in everyday life activities that affect health, well-being, and quality of life.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 225X00000X sits
- Group: Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers — code 10 of 82 in the group
- Classification: Occupational Therapist 225X00000X
This is the general code for Occupational Therapist. 12 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 225X00000X to Medicare specialty 67 (Occupational Therapist in Private Practice). That specialty — not the taxonomy code itself — is what Medicare enrollment records and uses for payment. 24,487 practitioners are enrolled under it nationally, and 12 other taxonomy codes map to the same specialty.
Other codes under the same Medicare specialty: 225XE0001X Environmental Modification Occupational Therapist; 225XE1200X Ergonomics Occupational Therapist; 225XF0002X Feeding, Eating & Swallowing Occupational Therapist; 225XG0600X Gerontology Occupational Therapist; 225XH1200X Hand Occupational Therapist; 225XH1300X Human Factors Occupational Therapist; 225XL0004X Low Vision Occupational Therapist; 225XM0800X Mental Health Occupational Therapist; and 4 more.
Related codes
| Code | Occupational Therapist — specializations |
|---|---|
| 225XR0403X | Driving and Community Mobility |
| 225XE0001X | Environmental Modification |
| 225XE1200X | Ergonomics |
| 225XF0002X | Feeding, Eating & Swallowing |
| 225XG0600X | Gerontology |
| 225XH1200X | Hand |
| 225XH1300X | Human Factors |
| 225XL0004X | Low Vision |
| 225XM0800X | Mental Health |
| 225XN1300X | Neurorehabilitation |
| 225XP0200X | Pediatrics |
| 225XP0019X | Physical Rehabilitation |
History of 225X00000X
NUCC's earliest recorded change to 225X00000X is from 2008 (definition changed, added source).
- 2008-07-01 — definition changed, added source
Similar codes in other groups
If 225X00000X 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:
- 2083X0100X Occupational Medicine Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 2083P0500X Preventive Medicine/Occupational Environmental Medicine Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 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)
- 111NX0100X Occupational Health Chiropractor (Chiropractic Providers)
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Using 225X00000X
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.