Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers / 225XP0019X
Individual · specialization · Medicare specialty 67
225XP0019X Physical Rehabilitation Occupational Therapist
225XP0019X is the taxonomy code for Physical Rehabilitation, 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 225XP0019X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty 67 Occupational Therapist in Private Practice
- 4Codes in this group 82
Definition
Occupational therapists are experts at helping people lead as independent a life as possible. Occupational therapists bring an understanding of the physical and psychological implications of illness and injury and their effects on peoples' ability to perform the tasks of daily living. Occupational therapists provide interventions that can aide a person in completing ADL and IADL tasks, such as dressing, bathing, preparing meals, and driving. They also may fabricate custom orthotics to improve function, evaluate the environment for safety hazards and recommend adaptations to remove those hazards, help a person compensate for cognitive changes, and build a persons' physical endurance and strength. Occupational therapists' knowledge of adapting tasks and modifying the environment to compensate for functional limitations is used to increase the involvement of clients and to promote safety and success.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 225XP0019X sits
- Group: Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers — code 22 of 82 in the group
- Classification: Occupational Therapist 225X00000X
- Specialization: Physical Rehabilitation 225XP0019X
Choose 225XP0019X over the general Occupational Therapist code (225X00000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in physical rehabilitation; 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 225XP0019X 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; 225XL0004X Low Vision Occupational Therapist; and 4 more.
Related codes
| Code | Occupational Therapist — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 225XM0800X | Mental Health |
| 225XN1300X | Neurorehabilitation |
| 225XP0200X | Pediatrics |
The nearest 3 of 12 other codes under Occupational Therapist; all are on the group page.
History of 225XP0019X
225XP0019X was added to the code set in 2008.
- 2008-07-01 — new
Similar codes in other groups
If 225XP0019X 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:
- 208100000X Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 2081P0010X Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 103TR0400X Rehabilitation Psychologist (Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers)
- 111NR0400X Rehabilitation Chiropractor (Chiropractic Providers)
- 152WL0500X Low Vision Rehabilitation Optometrist (Eye and Vision Services Providers)
- 163WC3500X Cardiac Rehabilitation Registered Nurse (Nursing Service Providers)
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Using 225XP0019X
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.