2081P0004X — Spinal Cord Injury Medicine Physician

Grouping

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians

Classification

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Specialization

Spinal Cord Injury Medicine

Section

Individual

Definition

A physician who addresses the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and management of traumatic spinal cord injury and non-traumatic etiologies of spinal cord dysfunction by working in an interdisciplinary manner. Care is provided to patients of all ages on a lifelong basis and covers related medical, physical, psychological and vocational disabilities and complications.

NUCC’s own wording, not a paraphrase.

Other codes under Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

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

• 208100000XPhysical Medicine & Rehabilitation
• 2081H0002XHospice and Palliative Medicine
• 2081N0008XNeuromuscular Medicine
• 2081P0010XPediatric Rehabilitation Medicine
• 2081P0301XBrain Injury Medicine
• 2081P2900XPain Medicine
• 2081S0010XSports Medicine