Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers / 225XL0004X
Individual · specialization · Medicare specialty 67
225XL0004X Low Vision Occupational Therapist
225XL0004X is the taxonomy code for Low Vision, 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 225XL0004X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty 67 Occupational Therapist in Private Practice
- 4Codes in this group 82
Definition
Occupational therapists enable children and adults with visual impairment to engage in their chosen daily living activities safely and as independently as possible. This is accomplished by 1) teaching the person to use their remaining vision as efficiently as possible to complete activities; (2) modifying activities so that they can be completed with less vision; (3) training the person in use of adaptive equipment to compensate for vision loss, including high and low technology assistive devices; and (4) modifying the person's environment.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 225XL0004X sits
- Group: Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers — code 18 of 82 in the group
- Classification: Occupational Therapist 225X00000X
- Specialization: Low Vision 225XL0004X
Choose 225XL0004X over the general Occupational Therapist code (225X00000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in low vision; 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 225XL0004X 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; 225XF0002X Feeding, Eating & Swallowing Occupational Therapist; 225XG0600X Gerontology Occupational Therapist; 225XH1200X Hand Occupational Therapist; 225XH1300X Human Factors Occupational Therapist; 225XM0800X Mental Health Occupational Therapist; and 4 more.
Related codes
| Code | Occupational Therapist — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 225XG0600X | Gerontology |
| 225XH1200X | Hand |
| 225XH1300X | Human Factors |
| 225XM0800X | Mental Health |
| 225XN1300X | Neurorehabilitation |
| 225XP0200X | Pediatrics |
The nearest 6 of 12 other codes under Occupational Therapist; all are on the group page.
History of 225XL0004X
225XL0004X was added to the code set in 2008.
- 2008-07-01 — new
Similar codes in other groups
If 225XL0004X 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:
- 152WL0500X Low Vision Rehabilitation Optometrist (Eye and Vision Services Providers)
- 152WX0102X Occupational Vision Optometrist (Eye and Vision Services Providers)
- 152WS0006X Sports Vision Optometrist (Eye and Vision Services Providers)
- 152WV0400X Vision Therapy Optometrist (Eye and Vision Services Providers)
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Using 225XL0004X
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.