Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers / 229N00000X
Individual · classification · Medicare specialty 56
229N00000X Anaplastologist
229N00000X is the taxonomy code for Anaplastologist, 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 56, Individual Certified Prosthetist, under which 0 practitioners are enrolled, and to 1 other specialty listed below.
- 1Taxonomy code 229N00000X
- 2Level Classification
- 3Medicare specialty 56 Individual Certified Prosthetist
- 4Codes in this group 82
Definition
An anaplastologist is a professional who creates prostheses for the face and body. Patients treated include those missing anatomy due to cancer, traumatic injury, or birth differences. Generally, there are no state licensing requirements for anaplastologists. Certification specific to anaplastology is provided through the Board for Certified Clinical Anaplastology (BCCA) with a credential title of Certified Clinical Anaplastologist (CCA).
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 229N00000X sits
- Group: Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers — code 1 of 82 in the group
- Classification: Anaplastologist 229N00000X
Anaplastologist has no specializations, so 229N00000X is the only code for it. A provider may report more than one taxonomy code on an NPI but marks one as primary.
Medicare
CMS's taxonomy crosswalk links 229N00000X to Medicare specialty 56 (Individual Certified Prosthetist) and Medicare specialty 57 (Individual Certified Prosthetist-Orthotist). That specialty — not the taxonomy code itself — is what Medicare enrollment records and uses for payment. 0 practitioners are enrolled under it nationally.
Related codes
No other codes share the classification Anaplastologist. The rest of Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers is on the group page.
History of 229N00000X
229N00000X was added to the code set in 2006.
- 2006-07-01 — new
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Using 229N00000X
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.