Ambulatory Health Care Facilities / 261QB0400X
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261QB0400X Birthing Clinic/Center
261QB0400X is the taxonomy code for Birthing, 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 261QB0400X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty Not in the crosswalk
- 4Codes in this group 63
Definition
A freestanding birth center is a health facility other than a hospital where childbirth is planned to occur away from the pregnant woman's residence, and that provides prenatal, labor and delivery, and postpartum care, as well as other ambulatory services for women and newborns.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 261QB0400X sits
- Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities — code 10 of 63 in the group
- Classification: Clinic/Center 261Q00000X
- Specialization: Birthing 261QB0400X
Choose 261QB0400X over the general Clinic/Center code (261Q00000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in birthing; 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
261QB0400X 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 |
|---|---|
| 261QA1903X | Ambulatory Surgical |
| 261QA0900X | Amputee |
| 261QA3000X | Augmentative Communication |
| 261QC1500X | Community Health |
| 261QC1800X | Corporate Health |
| 261QC0050X | Critical Access Hospital |
The nearest 6 of 62 other codes under Clinic/Center; all are on the group page.
History of 261QB0400X
NUCC's earliest recorded change to 261QB0400X is from 2013 (added definition).
- 2013-01-01 — added definition
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Using 261QB0400X
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.