Ambulatory Health Care Facilities / 261QA0005X
Non-Individual · specialization
261QA0005X Ambulatory Family Planning Facility
261QA0005X is the taxonomy code for Ambulatory Family Planning Facility, a specialization of Clinic/Center, in the NUCC group “Ambulatory Health Care Facilities”. 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 261QA0005X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty Not in the crosswalk
- 4Codes in this group 63
Definition
An abortion/family planning facility where services are provided at a fixed specific location. An Ambulatory Family Planning Facility does not provide overnight accommodations. The following procedures may be performed at an Ambulatory Family Planning Facility: abortions, laproscopy, hysterectomies, tubule ligation and other related procedures. Abortion is considered voluntary termination of pregnancy.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 261QA0005X sits
- Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities — code 5 of 63 in the group
- Classification: Clinic/Center 261Q00000X
- Specialization: Ambulatory Family Planning Facility 261QA0005X
Choose 261QA0005X over the general Clinic/Center code (261Q00000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in ambulatory family planning facility; 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
261QA0005X 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
| Code | Clinic/Center — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 261QM0855X | Adolescent and Children Mental Health |
| 261QA0600X | Adult Day Care |
| 261QM0850X | Adult Mental Health |
| 261QA0006X | Ambulatory Fertility Facility |
| 261QA1903X | Ambulatory Surgical |
| 261QA0900X | Amputee |
The nearest 6 of 62 other codes under Clinic/Center; all are on the group page.
History of 261QA0005X
NUCC's notes record no dated changes for 261QA0005X. The code set is republished every January and July, when codes are added, retitled or marked inactive; this page reflects version 26.1, so check the NUCC site if you are reading it after the next release.
Similar codes in other groups
If 261QA0005X 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:
- 207Q00000X Family Medicine Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 207VC0300X Complex Family Planning Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 106H00000X Marriage & Family Therapist (Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers)
- 103TF0000X Family Psychologist (Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers)
- 163WP2201X Ambulatory Care Registered Nurse (Nursing Service Providers)
- 163WW0101X Ambulatory Women's Health Care Registered Nurse (Nursing Service Providers)
Find providers with 261QA0005X
Using 261QA0005X
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.