2080S0012X — Pediatric Sleep Medicine Physician

Grouping

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians

Classification

Pediatrics

Specialization

Sleep Medicine

Section

Individual

Definition

A Pediatrician 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 Pediatrics

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

• 208000000XPediatrics
• 2080A0000XAdolescent Medicine
• 2080B0002XObesity Medicine
• 2080C0008XChild Abuse Pediatrics
• 2080H0002XHospice and Palliative Medicine
• 2080I0007XClinical & Laboratory Immunology
• 2080N0001XNeonatal-Perinatal Medicine
• 2080P0006XDevelopmental - Behavioral Pediatrics
• 2080P0008XNeurodevelopmental Disabilities
• 2080P0201XPediatric Allergy/Immunology
• 2080P0202XPediatric Cardiology
• 2080P0203XPediatric Critical Care Medicine
• 2080P0204XPediatric Emergency Medicine
• 2080P0205XPediatric Endocrinology
• 2080P0206XPediatric Gastroenterology
• 2080P0207XPediatric Hematology-Oncology
• 2080P0208XPediatric Infectious Diseases
• 2080P0210XPediatric Nephrology
• 2080P0214XPediatric Pulmonology
• 2080P0216XPediatric Rheumatology
• 2080P1004XPhysician Nutrition Specialist
• 2080S0010XSports Medicine
• 2080T0002XMedical Toxicology
• 2080T0004XPediatric Transplant Hepatology