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Taxonomy Codes Updates

Date: March 27, 2025

Attention: Providers

Effective date: April 1, 2025

Call to action: Texas Children’s Health Plan (TCHP) would like to inform providers know that effective April 1, 2025, the Texas Medicaid & Healthcare Partnership (TMHP) will add new taxonomy codes for the provider type “allopathic and osteopathic physicians; anesthesia; nutrition specialist.” In addition, the following taxonomy code updates will be made:

  • Title update: “Allopathic and osteopathic physicians providing Therapeutic Radiology” will change to “Allopathic and osteopathic physicians providing Radiation Oncology”
  • Definition update: “Other service providers; specialist (Prosthetics Case Management)”
  • The title for taxonomy code 2085R0203X – Therapeutic Radiology will change to Radiation Oncology.
  • Definition update: The definition for taxonomy code 1744P3200X – Other Service Providers; Specialist (Prosthetics Case Management) will change to:
Provider TypeTaxonomy Code
Prosthetics Case Management1744P3200X – A case manager who provides services for patients with prosthetics.

How this impacts providers:

New Taxonomy Codes

Provider TypeTaxonomy CodesDescription
Allopathic and osteopathic physicians; anesthesia; nutrition specialist207LP4000XA physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of primary nutritional diseases (e.g., undernutrition, over nutrition, and genetic or acquired errors of metabolism) and adjunctive nutritional therapeutics (e.g., nutritional therapy or support of diseases states with a metabolic component).
Allopathic and osteopathic physicians; family medicine; physician nutrition specialist207QP0002XA physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of primary nutritional diseases (e.g., undernutrition, over nutrition, 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.
Allopathic and osteopathic physicians; anesthesia; physician nutrition specialist207RP1002X, 2080P1004X, 2086P0122XA physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of primary nutritional diseases (e.g., undernutrition, over nutrition, 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.

How this impacts providers: As you may know, Texas Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) like TCHP must provide all medically necessary, Medicaid-covered services to Medicaid members who are enrolled in their MCO/TCHP. Administrative procedures, such as prior authorization, precertification, referrals, and claims and encounter data filing, may differ from traditional Medicaid (fee-for-service) and from MCO to MCO. Providers should reference a member’s specific MCO/TCHP for information on these items. For TCHP, this information can be found on the provider page available here https://www.texaschildrenshealthplan.org/providers.

Next step for Providers: Providers should share this communication with their staff.

If you have any questions, please email Provider Relations at: providerrelations@texaschildrens.org.

For access to all provider alerts: https://www.texaschildrenshealthplan.org/providers/provider-news/provider-alerts.