246ZS0410X Surgical Technologist

Definition

Surgical technologists are allied health professionals, who are an integral part of the team of medical practitioners providing surgical care to patients. Surgical technologists work under the supervision of a surgeon to facilitate the safe and effective conduct of invasive surgical procedures, ensuring that the operating room environment is safe, that equipment functions properly, and that the operative procedure is conducted under conditions that maximize patient safety. Surgical technologists possess expertise in the theory and application of sterile and aseptic technique and combine the knowledge of human anatomy, surgical procedures, and implementation tools and technologies to facilitate a physician's performance of invasive therapeutic and diagnostic procedures.

— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1

Where 246ZS0410X sits

• Group: Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers — code 39 of 65 in the group
• Classification: Specialist/Technologist, Other 246Z00000X
• Specialization: Surgical Technologist 246ZS0410X

Choose 246ZS0410X over the general Specialist/Technologist, Other code (246Z00000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in surgical technologist; 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

246ZS0410X 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

The nearest 3 of 14 other codes under Specialist/Technologist, Other; all are on the group page.

History of 246ZS0410X

NUCC's earliest recorded change to 246ZS0410X is from 2014 (code modified, title modified, definition added).

• 2014-07-01 — code modified, title modified, definition added

Similar codes in other groups

If 246ZS0410X 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:

• 2086S0102X Surgical Critical Care Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
• 2086X0206X Surgical Oncology Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
• 163WM0705X Medical-Surgical Registered Nurse (Nursing Service Providers)
• 364SM0705X Medical-Surgical Clinical Nurse Specialist (Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers)
• 363AS0400X Surgical Physician Assistant (Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers)
• 261QA1903X Ambulatory Surgical Clinic/Center (Ambulatory Health Care Facilities)

Using 246ZS0410X

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.