Ambulatory Health Care Facilities / 261QP2000X
Non-Individual · specialization · Medicare specialty 70
261QP2000X Physical Therapy Clinic/Center
261QP2000X is the taxonomy code for Physical Therapy, 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. Medicare maps it to specialty 70, Clinic or Group Practice, under which 13 practitioners are enrolled.
- 1Taxonomy code 261QP2000X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty 70 Clinic or Group Practice
- 4Codes in this group 63
Definition
An entity, facility, or distinct part of a facility providing diagnostic and treatment services related to physical rehabilitation. Physical therapy is a dynamic profession with an established theoretical and scientific base and widespread clinical applications in the restoration, maintenance, and promotion of optimal physical function. Physical therapists and physical therapist assistants are licensed health care professionals who are experts in the movement system and help individuals maintain, restore, and improve movement, activity, and functioning, thereby enabling optimal performance and enhancing health, well-being, and quality of life. Their services prevent, minimize, or eliminate impairments of body functions and structures, activity limitations, and participation restrictions. Physical therapy is provided for individuals of all ages who have or may develop impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions related to (1) conditions of the musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, cardiovascular, pulmonary, and/or integumentary systems or (2) the negative effects attributable to unique personal and environmental factors as they relate to human performance.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 261QP2000X sits
- Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities — code 43 of 63 in the group
- Classification: Clinic/Center 261Q00000X
- Specialization: Physical Therapy 261QP2000X
Choose 261QP2000X over the general Clinic/Center code (261Q00000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in physical therapy; 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
CMS's taxonomy crosswalk links 261QP2000X to Medicare specialty 70 (Clinic or Group Practice). That specialty — not the taxonomy code itself — is what Medicare enrollment records and uses for payment. 13 practitioners are enrolled under it nationally, and 4 other taxonomy codes map to the same specialty.
Other codes under the same Medicare specialty: 193200000X Multi-Specialty Group; 193400000X Single Specialty Group; 261Q00000X Clinic/Center; 261QM1300X Multi-Specialty Clinic/Center.
Related codes
| Code | Clinic/Center — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 261QS0132X | Ophthalmologic Surgery |
| 261QS0112X | Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery |
| 261QP3300X | Pain |
| 261QP1100X | Podiatric |
| 261QP2300X | Primary Care |
| 261QP2400X | Prison Health |
The nearest 6 of 62 other codes under Clinic/Center; all are on the group page.
History of 261QP2000X
NUCC's earliest recorded change to 261QP2000X is from 2020 (definition added).
- 2020-01-01 — definition added
Similar codes in other groups
If 261QP2000X 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:
- 207UN0902X Nuclear Imaging & Therapy Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 208100000X Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 152WV0400X Vision Therapy Optometrist (Eye and Vision Services Providers)
- 163WE0900X Enterostomal Therapy Registered Nurse (Nursing Service Providers)
- 163WI0500X Infusion Therapy Registered Nurse (Nursing Service Providers)
- 225XP0019X Physical Rehabilitation Occupational Therapist (Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers)
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Using 261QP2000X
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); CMS Medicare Provider and Supplier Taxonomy Crosswalk, August 2026; CMS Medicare Fee-For-Service Public Provider Enrollment, extract of 2026-09-29. Checked 2026-10-24. Methodology.