Hospitals / 282NC0060X
Non-Individual · specialization · Medicare specialty A0
282NC0060X Critical Access Hospital
282NC0060X is the taxonomy code for Critical Access, a specialization of 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.
- 1Taxonomy code 282NC0060X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty A0 Rural Emergency Hospitals
- 4Codes in this group 18
Definition
NUCC publishes no definition for 282NC0060X; the code is identified by its place in the tree below.
Where 282NC0060X sits
- Group: Hospitals — code 6 of 18 in the group
- Classification: General Acute Care Hospital 282N00000X
- Specialization: Critical Access 282NC0060X
Choose 282NC0060X over the general General Acute Care Hospital code (282N00000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in critical access; 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 282NC0060X 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 | General Acute Care Hospital — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 282N00000X | General Acute Care Hospital |
| 282NC2000X | Children |
| 282NR1301X | Rural |
| 282NW0100X | Women |
History of 282NC0060X
282NC0060X was added to the code set in 2003.
- 2003-07-01 — new
Similar codes in other groups
If 282NC0060X 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:
- 207LC0200X Critical Care Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 207RC0200X Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 207VC0200X Critical Care Medicine (Obstetrics & Gynecology) Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 2080P0203X Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 2086S0102X Surgical Critical Care Physician (Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians)
- 133VN1401X Pediatric Critical Care Nutrition Registered Dietitian (Dietary & Nutritional Service Providers)
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Using 282NC0060X
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.