Suppliers / 3336C0003X
Non-Individual · specialization · Medicare specialty 58
3336C0003X Community/Retail Pharmacy
3336C0003X is the taxonomy code for Community/Retail Pharmacy, a specialization of Pharmacy, in the NUCC group “Suppliers”. It is a code for organizations — the kind used on a Type 2 NPI. Medicare maps it to specialty 58, Medical Supply Company with Pharmacist, under which 0 practitioners are enrolled, and to 1 other specialty listed below.
- 1Taxonomy code 3336C0003X
- 2Level Specialization
- 3Medicare specialty 58 Medical Supply Company with Pharmacist
- 4Codes in this group 31
Definition
A pharmacy where pharmacists store, prepare, and dispense medicinal preparations and/or prescriptions for a local patient population in accordance with federal and state law; counsel patients and caregivers (sometimes independent of the dispensing process); administer vaccinations; and provide other professional services associated with pharmaceutical care such as health screenings, consultative services with other health care providers, collaborative practice, disease state management, and education classes.
— NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy, version 26.1
Where 3336C0003X sits
- Group: Suppliers — code 21 of 31 in the group
- Classification: Pharmacy 333600000X
- Specialization: Community/Retail Pharmacy 3336C0003X
Choose 3336C0003X over the general Pharmacy code (333600000X) when the provider's training or certification is specifically in community/retail pharmacy; 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 3336C0003X to Medicare specialty 58 (Medical Supply Company with Pharmacist) and Medicare specialty A5 (Pharmacy). 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 | Pharmacy — other specializations |
|---|---|
| 333600000X | Pharmacy |
| 3336C0002X | Clinic Pharmacy |
| 3336C0004X | Compounding Pharmacy |
| 3336H0001X | Home Infusion Therapy Pharmacy |
| 3336I0012X | Institutional Pharmacy |
The nearest 5 of 10 other codes under Pharmacy; all are on the group page.
History of 3336C0003X
3336C0003X was added to the code set in 2006.
- 2006-01-01 — new
Similar codes in other groups
If 3336C0003X 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:
- 146E00000X Community Paramedic (Emergency Medical Service Providers)
- 163WC1500X Community Health Registered Nurse (Nursing Service Providers)
- 172V00000X Community Health Worker (Other Service Providers)
- 1835P0018X Pharmacist Clinician (PhC)/ Clinical Pharmacy Specialist (Pharmacy Service Providers)
- 183700000X Pharmacy Technician (Pharmacy Service Providers)
- 364SC1501X Community Health/Public Health Clinical Nurse Specialist (Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers)
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Using 3336C0003X
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.