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251300000X Local Education Agency (LEA)
251300000X is the taxonomy code for Local Education Agency (LEA), in the NUCC group “Agencies”. It is a code for organizations — the kind used on a Type 2 NPI. It has no entry in the CMS Medicare taxonomy crosswalk.
- 1Taxonomy code 251300000X
- 2Level Classification
- 3Medicare specialty Not in the crosswalk
- 4Codes in this group 15
Definition
The term local education agency means a public board of education or other public authority legally constituted within a State to either provide administrative control or direction of, or perform a service function for public schools serving individuals ages 0 - 21 in a state, city, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision including a combination of school districts or counties recognized in a State as an administrative agency for its public schools. An LEA may provide, or employ professional who provide, services to children included in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), such services may include, but are not limited to, such medical services as physical, occupational, and speech therapy.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 251300000X sits
- Group: Agencies — code 10 of 15 in the group
- Classification: Local Education Agency (LEA) 251300000X
Local Education Agency (LEA) has no specializations, so 251300000X is the only code for it. A provider may report more than one taxonomy code on an NPI but marks one as primary.
Medicare
251300000X 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 — organizations of this type enroll, if at all, under a facility or supplier type rather than a practitioner specialty.
Related codes
No other codes share the classification Local Education Agency (LEA). The rest of Agencies is on the group page.
History of 251300000X
251300000X was added to the code set in 2006.
- 2006-01-01 — new
Similar codes in other groups
If 251300000X 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:
- 133NN1002X Nutrition Education Nutritionist (Dietary & Nutritional Service Providers)
- 163WC1600X Continuing Education/Staff Development Registered Nurse (Nursing Service Providers)
- 390200000X Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program (Student, Health Care)
- 261QP0905X State or Local Public Health Clinic/Center (Ambulatory Health Care Facilities)
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Using 251300000X
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.