Hospitals / 281PC2000X
Non-Individual · specialization · Medicare specialty A0
281PC2000X Children's Chronic Disease Hospital
281PC2000X is the taxonomy code for Children, a specialization of 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 281PC2000X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty A0 Rural Emergency Hospitals
- 4Codes in this group 18
Definition
NUCC publishes no definition for 281PC2000X; the code is identified by its place in the tree below.
Where 281PC2000X sits
- Group: Hospitals — code 3 of 18 in the group
- Classification: Chronic Disease Hospital 281P00000X
- Specialization: Children 281PC2000X
Choose 281PC2000X over the general Chronic Disease Hospital code (281P00000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in children; 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 281PC2000X 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 — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 281P00000X | Chronic Disease Hospital |
History of 281PC2000X
NUCC's notes record no dated changes for 281PC2000X. 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 281PC2000X 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:
- 261QM0855X Adolescent and Children Mental Health Clinic/Center (Ambulatory Health Care Facilities)
- 261QM3000X Medically Fragile Infants and Children Day Care (Ambulatory Health Care Facilities)
- 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 281PC2000X
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.