Taxonomy code 209800000X
Legal Medicine (M.D./D.O.) Physician taxonomy code: 209800000X
Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
About this code
- Code
- 209800000X
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Legal Medicine
- For
- Individuals (NPI-1)
- Code set
- NUCC version 26.1
Definition
Legal Medicine is a special field of medicine that focuses on various aspects of medicine and law. Historically, the practice of legal medicine made contributions to medicine as a scientific instrument to solve criminal perplexities. Since World War II, the domain of legal medicine has broadened to include not only aspects of medical science to solve legal and criminal problems but aspects of law as it applies to medicine. Legal Medicine continues to grow as medicolegal issues like medical malpractice and liability, government regulation of health care, issues of tort reform, and moral and ethical complexities presented by technological advances become increasingly prominent. Many medical schools have implemented courses which supply medicolegal instruction for medical students, and many law schools now offer medicolegal courses. Also, dual degree programs in law and medicine have been created to assist physicians to bridge the gap between medicine and the law.
Providers choose taxonomy code 209800000X (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.