Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers / 2278C0205X
Individual · specialization
2278C0205X Critical Care Certified Respiratory Therapist
2278C0205X is the taxonomy code for Critical Care, a specialization of Respiratory Therapist, Certified, 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 2278C0205X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty Not in the crosswalk
- 4Codes in this group 82
Definition
Respiratory emergencies are commonplace in the treatment of critical care patients. Included in the assessment measurements conducted by the respiratory therapist in the critical care settings are arterial blood gas puncture and analysis, intrarterial monitoring, bedside measurements of lung mechanics, hemodynamic monitoring, and inspired and expired gas measurements. This is coupled with the initiation and management of mechanical ventilation patients.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 2278C0205X sits
- Group: Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers — code 53 of 82 in the group
- Classification: Respiratory Therapist, Certified 227800000X
- Specialization: Critical Care 2278C0205X
Choose 2278C0205X over the general Respiratory Therapist, Certified code (227800000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in critical care; 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
2278C0205X 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
| Code | Respiratory Therapist, Certified — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 227800000X | Certified Respiratory Therapist |
| 2278E1000X | Educational |
| 2278E0002X | Emergency Care |
| 2278G1100X | General Care |
The nearest 4 of 13 other codes under Respiratory Therapist, Certified; all are on the group page.
History of 2278C0205X
NUCC's notes record no dated changes for 2278C0205X. The code set is republished every January and July, when codes are added, retitled or marked inactive; this page reflects version 26.1, so check the NUCC site if you are reading it after the next release.
Similar codes in other groups
If 2278C0205X 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:
- 207LC0200X Critical Care Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 207RC0200X Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 207VC0200X Critical Care Medicine (Obstetrics & Gynecology) Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 2080P0203X Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 2086S0102X Surgical Critical Care Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 133VN1401X Pediatric Critical Care Nutrition Registered Dietitian (Dietary & Nutritional Service Providers)
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Using 2278C0205X
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.