Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers / 246YC3301X
Inactive · Individual · specialization
246YC3301X Hospital Based Coding Specialist
246YC3301X is the taxonomy code for Coding Specialist, Hospital Based, a specialization of Specialist/Technologist, Health Information, in the NUCC group “Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical 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 246YC3301X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty Not in the crosswalk
- 4Codes in this group 65
Definition
NUCC publishes no definition for 246YC3301X; the code is identified by its place in the tree below.
Where 246YC3301X sits
- Group: Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers — code 22 of 65 in the group
- Classification: Specialist/Technologist, Health Information 246Y00000X
- Specialization: Coding Specialist, Hospital Based 246YC3301X
Choose 246YC3301X over the general Specialist/Technologist, Health Information code (246Y00000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in coding specialist, hospital based; 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
246YC3301X 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 | Specialist/Technologist, Health Information — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 246Y00000X | Health Information Specialist/Technologist |
| 246YC3302X | Coding Specialist, Physician Office Based |
| 246YR1600X | Registered Record Administrator |
History of 246YC3301X
NUCC's earliest recorded change to 246YC3301X is from 2023 (marked inactive). NUCC has marked it inactive: it should not be used for new NPIs, and existing records should move to a current code.
- 2023-01-01 — marked inactive
Similar codes in other groups
If 246YC3301X 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:
- 251G00000X Community Based Hospice Care Agency (Agencies)
- 261QC0050X Critical Access Hospital Clinic/Center (Ambulatory Health Care Facilities)
- 281P00000X Chronic Disease Hospital (Hospitals)
- 282N00000X General Acute Care Hospital (Hospitals)
- 282E00000X Long Term Care Hospital (Hospitals)
- 286500000X Military Hospital (Hospitals)
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Using 246YC3301X
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.