Ambulatory Health Care Facilities / 261QH0700X
Non-Individual · specialization
261QH0700X Hearing and Speech Clinic/Center
261QH0700X is the taxonomy code for Hearing and Speech, 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 261QH0700X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty Not in the crosswalk
- 4Codes in this group 63
Definition
An entity, facility, or distinct part of a facility providing diagnostic, treatment, prescriptive, and therapy services related to congenital and acquired conditions and diseases that affect hearing capacity and speech ability.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 261QH0700X sits
- Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities — code 23 of 63 in the group
- Classification: Clinic/Center 261Q00000X
- Specialization: Hearing and Speech 261QH0700X
Choose 261QH0700X over the general Clinic/Center code (261Q00000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in hearing and speech; 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
261QH0700X 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 |
|---|---|
| 261QF0400X | Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) |
| 261QG0250X | Genetics |
| 261QH0100X | Health Service |
| 261QI0500X | Infusion Therapy |
| 261QL0400X | Lithotripsy |
| 261QM1200X | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) |
The nearest 6 of 62 other codes under Clinic/Center; all are on the group page.
History of 261QH0700X
261QH0700X was added to the code set in 2003.
- 2003-07-01 — new
Similar codes in other groups
If 261QH0700X 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:
- 237600000X Audiologist-Hearing Aid Fitter (Speech, Language and Hearing Service Providers)
- 237700000X Hearing Instrument Specialist (Speech, Language and Hearing Service Providers)
- 2355S0801X Speech-Language Assistant (Speech, Language and Hearing Service Providers)
- 235Z00000X Speech-Language Pathologist (Speech, Language and Hearing Service Providers)
- 332S00000X Hearing Aid Equipment (Suppliers)
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Using 261QH0700X
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.