207RS0012X — Sleep Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician

Grouping

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians

Classification

Internal Medicine

Specialization

Sleep Medicine

Section

Individual

Definition

An Internist who practices Sleep Medicine is certified in the subspecialty of sleep medicine and specializes in the clinical assessment, physiologic testing, diagnosis, management and prevention of sleep and circadian rhythm disorders. Sleep specialists treat patients of any age and use multidisciplinary approaches. Disorders managed by sleep specialists include, but are not limited to, sleep related breathing disorders, insomnia, hypersomnias, circadian rhythm sleep disorders, parasomnias and sleep related movement disorders.

NUCC’s own wording, not a paraphrase.

Other codes under Internal Medicine

These are the codes a mis-selection most often lands on, because they share a classification and differ only by specialisation.

• 207QB0505XDiabetology
• 207R00000XInternal Medicine
• 207RA0000XAdolescent Medicine
• 207RA0001XAdvanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
• 207RA0002XAdult Congenital Heart Disease
• 207RA0201XAllergy & Immunology
• 207RA0401XAddiction Medicine
• 207RB0002XObesity Medicine
• 207RC0000XCardiovascular Disease
• 207RC0001XClinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
• 207RC0200XCritical Care Medicine
• 207RE0101XEndocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
• 207RG0100XGastroenterology
• 207RG0300XGeriatric Medicine
• 207RH0000XHematology
• 207RH0002XHospice and Palliative Medicine
• 207RH0003XHematology & Oncology
• 207RH0005XHypertension Specialist
• 207RI0001XClinical & Laboratory Immunology
• 207RI0008XHepatology
• 207RI0011XInterventional Cardiology
• 207RI0200XInfectious Disease
• 207RM1200XMagnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
• 207RN0300XNephrology
• 207RP1001XPulmonary Disease
• 207RP1002XPhysician Nutrition Specialist
• 207RR0500XRheumatology
• 207RS0010XSports Medicine
• 207RT0003XTransplant Hepatology
• 207RX0202XMedical Oncology