Agencies / 251X00000X
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251X00000X Supports Brokerage Agency
251X00000X is the taxonomy code for Supports Brokerage, 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 251X00000X
- 2Level Classification
- 3Medicare specialty Not in the crosswalk
- 4Codes in this group 15
Definition
A provider of service/function that assists participating individuals to make informed decisions about what will work best for them is consistent with their needs and reflects their individual circumstances. Serving as the agent of the individual, the service is available to assist in identifying immediate and long-term needs, developing options to meet those needs and accessing identified supports and services and may include assistance with recruiting, screening, hiring, and training in-home support providers. A family or person-centered planning approach is used. Supports Brokerage offers practical skills training to enable families and individuals to remain independent. Examples of skills training include providing information on recruiting and hiring personal care workers, managing personal care workers and providing information on effective communication and problem solving. The service/function provides sufficient information to assure that individuals understand the responsibilities involved with self-direction and assist in the development of an effective back-up and emergency plan. Plans may elect to fulfill the requirement of this service/function using a self-directed case manager or creating a distinct service. The Supports Brokerage documents the need for assistive services, planning for and documenting the use of excess funds and locating and maintaining services.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 251X00000X sits
- Group: Agencies — code 14 of 15 in the group
- Classification: Supports Brokerage 251X00000X
Supports Brokerage has no specializations, so 251X00000X is the only code for it. A provider may report more than one taxonomy code on an NPI but marks one as primary.
Medicare
251X00000X 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 Supports Brokerage. The rest of Agencies is on the group page.
History of 251X00000X
251X00000X was added to the code set in 2006.
- 2006-07-01 — new
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Using 251X00000X
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.