Hospitals / 281P00000X
Non-Individual · classification · Medicare specialty A0
281P00000X Chronic Disease Hospital
281P00000X is the taxonomy code for Chronic Disease Hospital, in the NUCC group “Hospitals”. It is a code for organizations — the kind used on a Type 2 NPI. Medicare maps it to specialty A0, Rural Emergency Hospitals, under which 0 practitioners are enrolled.
- 1Taxonomy code 281P00000X
- 2Level Classification
- 3Medicare specialty A0 Rural Emergency Hospitals
- 4Codes in this group 18
Definition
(1) A hospital including a physical plant and personnel that provides multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment for diseases that have one or more of the following characteristics: is permanent; leaves residual disability; is caused by nonreversible pathological alteration; requires special training of the patient for rehabilitation; and/or may be expected to require a long period of supervision or care. In addition, patients require the safety, security, and shelter of these specialized inpatient or partial hospitalization settings. (2) A hospital that provides medical and skilled nursing services to patients with long-term illnesses who are not in an acute phase but who require an intensity of services not available in nursing homes.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 281P00000X sits
- Group: Hospitals — code 2 of 18 in the group
- Classification: Chronic Disease Hospital 281P00000X
This is the general code for Chronic Disease Hospital. 1 more specific code sit beneath it; pick one of those when the provider's training or certification matches it, and this one otherwise. A provider may report more than one taxonomy code on an NPI but marks one as primary.
Medicare
CMS's taxonomy crosswalk links 281P00000X to Medicare specialty A0 (Rural Emergency Hospitals). That specialty — not the taxonomy code itself — is what Medicare enrollment records and uses for payment. 0 practitioners are enrolled under it nationally.
Related codes
| Code | Chronic Disease Hospital — specializations |
|---|---|
| 281PC2000X | Children |
History of 281P00000X
NUCC's notes record no dated changes for 281P00000X. The code set is republished every January and July, when codes are added, retitled or marked inactive; this page reflects version 26.1, so check the NUCC site if you are reading it after the next release.
Similar codes in other groups
If 281P00000X 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:
- 207RA0002X Adult Congenital Heart Disease Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 207RC0000X Cardiovascular Disease Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 207RI0200X Infectious Disease Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 207RP1001X Pulmonary Disease Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 207WX0108X Uveitis and Ocular Inflammatory Disease (Ophthalmology) Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 364SC2300X Chronic Care Clinical Nurse Specialist (Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers)
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Using 281P00000X
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.