Hospitals / 282N00000X
Non-Individual · classification · Medicare specialty A0
282N00000X General Acute Care Hospital
282N00000X is the taxonomy code for General Acute Care 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, and to 3 other specialties listed below.
- 1Taxonomy code 282N00000X
- 2Level Classification
- 3Medicare specialty A0 Rural Emergency Hospitals
- 4Codes in this group 18
Definition
An acute general hospital is an institution whose primary function is to provide inpatient diagnostic and therapeutic services for a variety of medical conditions, both surgical and non-surgical, to a wide population group. The hospital treats patients in an acute phase of illness or injury, characterized by a single episode or a fairly short duration, from which the patient returns to his or her normal or previous level of activity.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 282N00000X sits
- Group: Hospitals — code 4 of 18 in the group
- Classification: General Acute Care Hospital 282N00000X
This is the general code for General Acute Care Hospital. 4 more specific codes 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 282N00000X to Medicare specialty A0 (Rural Emergency Hospitals) and Medicare specialty A0 (Rural Emergency Hospitals) and Medicare specialty A0 (Rural Emergency Hospitals) and 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 | General Acute Care Hospital — specializations |
|---|---|
| 282NC2000X | Children |
| 282NC0060X | Critical Access |
| 282NR1301X | Rural |
| 282NW0100X | Women |
History of 282N00000X
NUCC's notes record no dated changes for 282N00000X. 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 282N00000X 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:
- 364SA2100X Acute Care Clinical Nurse Specialist (Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers)
- 363LA2100X Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers)
- 246YC3301X Hospital Based Coding Specialist (Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers)
- 261QC0050X Critical Access Hospital Clinic/Center (Ambulatory Health Care Facilities)
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Using 282N00000X
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.