2086P0122X — Physician Nutrition Specialist (Surgery)

Grouping

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians

Classification

Surgery

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 Surgery

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

• 208600000XSurgery
• 2086H0002XHospice and Palliative Medicine
• 2086S0102XSurgical Critical Care
• 2086S0105XSurgery of the Hand
• 2086S0120XPediatric Surgery
• 2086S0122XPlastic and Reconstructive Surgery
• 2086S0127XTrauma Surgery
• 2086S0129XVascular Surgery
• 2086X0206XSurgical Oncology