Ambulatory Health Care Facilities / 261QM3000X
Non-Individual · specialization
261QM3000X Medically Fragile Infants and Children Day Care
261QM3000X is the taxonomy code for Medically Fragile Infants and Children Day Care, 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 261QM3000X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty Not in the crosswalk
- 4Codes in this group 63
Definition
An entity, facility, or distinct part of a facility specially equipped and staffed to provide care for medically fragile children with varied and complex care needs (e.g., enteral or parental feeding, ostomy care, respiratory/ventilator care, medications and therapies, etc.).
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 261QM3000X sits
- Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities — code 28 of 63 in the group
- Classification: Clinic/Center 261Q00000X
- Specialization: Medically Fragile Infants and Children Day Care 261QM3000X
Choose 261QM3000X over the general Clinic/Center code (261Q00000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in medically fragile infants and children day care; 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
261QM3000X 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 |
|---|---|
| 261QL0400X | Lithotripsy |
| 261QM1200X | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) |
| 261QM2500X | Medical Specialty |
| 261QM0801X | Mental Health (Including Community Mental Health Center) |
| 261QM2800X | Methadone |
| 261QM1000X | Migrant Health |
The nearest 6 of 62 other codes under Clinic/Center; all are on the group page.
History of 261QM3000X
261QM3000X was added to the code set in 2003.
- 2003-07-01 — new
Similar codes in other groups
If 261QM3000X 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:
- 281PC2000X Children's Chronic Disease Hospital (Hospitals)
- 282NC2000X Children's Hospital (Hospitals)
- 283XC2000X Children's Rehabilitation Hospital (Hospitals)
- 322D00000X Emotionally Disturbed Childrens' Residential Treatment Facility (Residential Treatment Facilities)
- 3245S0500X Children's Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Facility (Residential Treatment Facilities)
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Using 261QM3000X
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.