Ambulatory Health Care Facilities / 261QM0855X
Non-Individual · specialization
261QM0855X Adolescent and Children Mental Health Clinic/Center
261QM0855X is the taxonomy code for Adolescent and Children Mental Health, 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 261QM0855X
- 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, and prescriptive services related to mental and behavioral disorders in children and adolescents. Services may be provided to parents and family members of the patient in the form of conjoint, group, or individual therapy, and education and/or training.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 261QM0855X sits
- Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities — code 2 of 63 in the group
- Classification: Clinic/Center 261Q00000X
- Specialization: Adolescent and Children Mental Health 261QM0855X
Choose 261QM0855X over the general Clinic/Center code (261Q00000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in adolescent and children mental health; 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
261QM0855X 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 |
|---|---|
| 261Q00000X | Clinic/Center |
| 261QA0600X | Adult Day Care |
| 261QM0850X | Adult Mental Health |
| 261QA0005X | Ambulatory Family Planning Facility |
The nearest 4 of 62 other codes under Clinic/Center; all are on the group page.
History of 261QM0855X
261QM0855X was added to the code set in 2003.
- 2003-07-01 — new
Similar codes in other groups
If 261QM0855X 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:
- 207QA0000X Adolescent Medicine (Family Medicine) Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 207RA0000X Adolescent Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 2080A0000X Pediatric Adolescent Medicine Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 2084P0804X Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 101YM0800X Mental Health Counselor (Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers)
- 103TC2200X Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychologist (Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers)
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Using 261QM0855X
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.