Ambulatory Health Care Facilities / 261QA3000X
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261QA3000X Augmentative Communication Clinic/Center
261QA3000X is the taxonomy code for Augmentative Communication, 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 261QA3000X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty Not in the crosswalk
- 4Codes in this group 63
Definition
An entity, facility, or distinct part of a facility staffed by audiology and/or speech professionals with special training in the evaluation of a patient's potential for use of an augmentative communication device, determination of the most appropriate device, adjustment and maintenance of the device, and training the patient to use the device.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 261QA3000X sits
- Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities — code 9 of 63 in the group
- Classification: Clinic/Center 261Q00000X
- Specialization: Augmentative Communication 261QA3000X
Choose 261QA3000X over the general Clinic/Center code (261Q00000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in augmentative communication; 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
261QA3000X 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 |
|---|---|
| 261QA0006X | Ambulatory Fertility Facility |
| 261QA1903X | Ambulatory Surgical |
| 261QA0900X | Amputee |
| 261QB0400X | Birthing |
| 261QC1500X | Community Health |
| 261QC1800X | Corporate Health |
The nearest 6 of 62 other codes under Clinic/Center; all are on the group page.
History of 261QA3000X
261QA3000X was added to the code set in 2003.
- 2003-07-01 — new
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Using 261QA3000X
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.