Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers / 225XF0002X
Individual · specialization · Medicare specialty 67
225XF0002X Feeding, Eating & Swallowing Occupational Therapist
225XF0002X is the taxonomy code for Feeding, Eating & Swallowing, a specialization of 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 225XF0002X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty 67 Occupational Therapist in Private Practice
- 4Codes in this group 82
Definition
Occupational therapists provide interventions to clients of all ages with feeding, eating and swallowing difficulties. Occupational therapists provide comprehensive rehabilitative, habilitative, and palliative dysphagia care, which includes collaborating with clients to provide individualized compensatory swallowing strategies, modified diet textures, adapted mealtime environments, enhanced feeding skills, preparatory exercises and positioning to clients, reinforcement of mealtime strategies to enhance and improve swallowing skills, and training to caregivers to enhance eating and feeding performance. Occupational therapists provide screening and in-depth clinical assessment which may include instrumental dysphagia assessments including videofluroscopy.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 225XF0002X sits
- Group: Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers — code 14 of 82 in the group
- Classification: Occupational Therapist 225X00000X
- Specialization: Feeding, Eating & Swallowing 225XF0002X
Choose 225XF0002X over the general Occupational Therapist code (225X00000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in feeding, eating & swallowing; 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 225XF0002X 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: 225X00000X Occupational Therapist; 225XE0001X Environmental Modification Occupational Therapist; 225XE1200X Ergonomics 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 — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 225XR0403X | Driving and Community Mobility |
| 225XE0001X | Environmental Modification |
| 225XE1200X | Ergonomics |
| 225XG0600X | Gerontology |
| 225XH1200X | Hand |
| 225XH1300X | Human Factors |
The nearest 6 of 12 other codes under Occupational Therapist; all are on the group page.
History of 225XF0002X
225XF0002X was added to the code set in 2008.
- 2008-07-01 — new
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Using 225XF0002X
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.