Taxonomy code 173000000X
Legal Medicine taxonomy code: 173000000X
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About this code
- Code
- 173000000X
- Grouping
- Other Service Providers
- Classification
- Legal Medicine
- For
- Individuals (NPI-1)
- Code set
- NUCC version 26.1
Definition
The specialty areas of medicine concerned with matters of, and relations with, substantive law and legal institutions; such as the conduct of medical examinations at crime scenes, performance of autopsies, giving of expert medical testimony in judicial proceedings, medical treatment of inmates of penal institutions, the practice of trauma medicine in law enforcement settings, and other clinical practice and medical science applications in the fields of law, law enforcement, and corrections.
Providers choose taxonomy code 173000000X (Legal Medicine) when they apply for or update their NPI. A provider can list several codes and marks one as primary; the code describes the type of care, not a license or board certification.
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Definition: National Uniform Claim Committee (NUCC), Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set, version 26.1, nucc.org.