Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers / 226000000X
Individual · classification
226000000X Recreational Therapist Assistant
226000000X is the taxonomy code for Recreational Therapist Assistant, 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. It has no entry in the CMS Medicare taxonomy crosswalk.
- 1Taxonomy code 226000000X
- 2Level Classification
- 3Medicare specialty Not in the crosswalk
- 4Codes in this group 82
Definition
Recreational Therapist Assistants work in support of or assistant to Recreational Therapists treating patients with disabilities, injuries, and illnesses. Recreational Therapist Assistants work in a variety of settings providing treatments using recreational activities, including games, sports, and crafts.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 226000000X sits
- Group: Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers — code 46 of 82 in the group
- Classification: Recreational Therapist Assistant 226000000X
Recreational Therapist Assistant has no specializations, so 226000000X is the only code for it. A provider may report more than one taxonomy code on an NPI but marks one as primary.
Medicare
226000000X has no entry in the CMS Medicare Provider and Supplier Taxonomy Crosswalk. That usually means Medicare does not enroll this kind of provider under its own specialty — the provider can still hold an NPI and use this code on claims to other payers.
Related codes
No other codes share the classification Recreational Therapist Assistant. The rest of Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers is on the group page.
History of 226000000X
226000000X was added to the code set in 2016.
- 2016-01-01 — new
Similar codes in other groups
If 226000000X 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:
- 106E00000X Assistant Behavior Analyst (Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers)
- 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)
- 125K00000X Advanced Practice Dental Therapist (Dental Providers)
- 126800000X Dental Assistant (Dental Providers)
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Using 226000000X
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). Checked 2026-10-24. Methodology.