Taxonomy code 225XF0002X

Feeding, Eating & Swallowing Occupational Therapist taxonomy code: 225XF0002X

Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers

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Code: 225XF0002X
Grouping: Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers
Classification: Occupational Therapist
Specialization: Feeding, Eating & Swallowing
For: Individuals (NPI-1)
Code set: NUCC version 26.1

Definition

Occupational therapists provide interventions to clients of all ages with feeding, eating and swallowing difficulties. Occupational therapists provide comprehensive rehabilitative, habilitative, and palliative dysphagia care, which includes collaborating with clients to provide individualized compensatory swallowing strategies, modified diet textures, adapted mealtime environments, enhanced feeding skills, preparatory exercises and positioning to clients, reinforcement of mealtime strategies to enhance and improve swallowing skills, and training to caregivers to enhance eating and feeding performance. Occupational therapists provide screening and in-depth clinical assessment which may include instrumental dysphagia assessments including videofluroscopy.

Providers choose taxonomy code 225XF0002X (Occupational Therapist, Feeding, Eating & Swallowing) 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.