207QP0002X — Physician Nutrition Specialist (Family Medicine)

Grouping

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians

Classification

Family Medicine

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 Family Medicine

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

• 207Q00000XFamily Medicine
• 207QA0000XAdolescent Medicine
• 207QA0401XAddiction Medicine
• 207QA0505XAdult Medicine
• 207QB0002XObesity Medicine
• 207QD0401XDiabetology
• 207QG0300XGeriatric Medicine
• 207QH0002XHospice and Palliative Medicine
• 207QS0010XSports Medicine
• 207QS1201XSleep Medicine