207LP4000X
207LP4000X — Physician Nutrition Specialist (Anesthesiology)
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Anesthesiology
- Specialization
- Physician Nutrition Specialist
- Section
- Individual
Definition
A physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of primary nutritional diseases (e.g., undernutrition, overnutrition, and genetic or acquired errors of metabolism) and adjunctive nutritional therapeutics (e.g., nutritional therapy or support of diseases states with a metabolic component). Physician Nutrition Specialists also provide services for nutritional disease prevention, including diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer’s, hospital malnutrition screening, and perioperative nutrition.
NUCC’s own wording, not a paraphrase.
Other codes under Anesthesiology
These are the codes a mis-selection most often lands on, because they share a classification and differ only by specialisation.
- 207L00000XAnesthesiology
- 207LA0401XAddiction Medicine
- 207LC0200XCritical Care Medicine
- 207LH0002XHospice and Palliative Medicine
- 207LP2900XPain Medicine
- 207LP3000XPediatric Anesthesiology