Ambulatory Health Care Facilities / 261QC0050X
Non-Individual · specialization
261QC0050X Critical Access Hospital Clinic/Center
261QC0050X is the taxonomy code for Critical Access Hospital, 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 261QC0050X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty Not in the crosswalk
- 4Codes in this group 63
Definition
An outpatient entity, facility, or distinct part of a facility within or affiliated with a Critical Access Hospital that provides access to primary care services for individuals in a small rural community and is Medicare certified.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 261QC0050X sits
- Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities — code 13 of 63 in the group
- Classification: Clinic/Center 261Q00000X
- Specialization: Critical Access Hospital 261QC0050X
Choose 261QC0050X over the general Clinic/Center code (261Q00000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in critical access hospital; 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
261QC0050X 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 |
|---|---|
| 261QB0400X | Birthing |
| 261QC1500X | Community Health |
| 261QC1800X | Corporate Health |
| 261QD0000X | Dental |
| 261QD1600X | Developmental Disabilities |
| 261QE0002X | Emergency Care |
The nearest 6 of 62 other codes under Clinic/Center; all are on the group page.
History of 261QC0050X
261QC0050X was added to the code set in 2003.
- 2003-07-01 — new
Similar codes in other groups
If 261QC0050X 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:
- 207LC0200X Critical Care Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 207RC0200X Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 207VC0200X Critical Care Medicine (Obstetrics & Gynecology) Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 2080P0203X Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 2086S0102X Surgical Critical Care Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 133VN1401X Pediatric Critical Care Nutrition Registered Dietitian (Dietary & Nutritional Service Providers)
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Using 261QC0050X
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.