Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers / 246ZA2600X
Inactive · Individual · specialization
246ZA2600X Medical Art Specialist/Technologist
246ZA2600X is the taxonomy code for Art, Medical, a specialization of Specialist/Technologist, Other, 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 246ZA2600X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty Not in the crosswalk
- 4Codes in this group 65
Definition
NUCC publishes no definition for 246ZA2600X; the code is identified by its place in the tree below.
Where 246ZA2600X sits
- Group: Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers — code 26 of 65 in the group
- Classification: Specialist/Technologist, Other 246Z00000X
- Specialization: Art, Medical 246ZA2600X
Choose 246ZA2600X over the general Specialist/Technologist, Other code (246Z00000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in art, medical; 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
246ZA2600X 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, Other — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 246Z00000X | Other Specialist/Technologist |
| 246ZB0500X | Biochemist |
| 246ZB0301X | Biomedical Engineering |
| 246ZB0302X | Biomedical Photographer |
The nearest 4 of 14 other codes under Specialist/Technologist, Other; all are on the group page.
History of 246ZA2600X
NUCC's earliest recorded change to 246ZA2600X 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 246ZA2600X 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:
- 207PE0004X Emergency Medical Services (Emergency Medicine) Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 207PT0002X Medical Toxicology (Emergency Medicine) Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 202C00000X Independent Medical Examiner Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 207RX0202X Medical Oncology Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 207SG0207X Medical Biochemical Genetics (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 207SG0205X Ph.D. Medical Genetics Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
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Using 246ZA2600X
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.