207YS0012X — Sleep Medicine (Otolaryngology) Physician

Grouping

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians

Classification

Otolaryngology

Specialization

Sleep Medicine

Section

Individual

Definition

An Otolaryngologist 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 Otolaryngology

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

• 207Y00000XOtolaryngology
• 207YP0228XPediatric Otolaryngology
• 207YS0123XFacial Plastic Surgery
• 207YX0007XPlastic Surgery within the Head & Neck
• 207YX0602XOtolaryngic Allergy
• 207YX0901XOtology & Neurotology
• 207YX0905XOtolaryngology/Facial Plastic Surgery