2080P1004X — Physician Nutrition Specialist (Pediatrics)

Grouping

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians

Classification

Pediatrics

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 Pediatrics

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

• 208000000XPediatrics
• 2080A0000XAdolescent Medicine
• 2080B0002XObesity Medicine
• 2080C0008XChild Abuse Pediatrics
• 2080H0002XHospice and Palliative Medicine
• 2080I0007XClinical & Laboratory Immunology
• 2080N0001XNeonatal-Perinatal Medicine
• 2080P0006XDevelopmental - Behavioral Pediatrics
• 2080P0008XNeurodevelopmental Disabilities
• 2080P0201XPediatric Allergy/Immunology
• 2080P0202XPediatric Cardiology
• 2080P0203XPediatric Critical Care Medicine
• 2080P0204XPediatric Emergency Medicine
• 2080P0205XPediatric Endocrinology
• 2080P0206XPediatric Gastroenterology
• 2080P0207XPediatric Hematology-Oncology
• 2080P0208XPediatric Infectious Diseases
• 2080P0210XPediatric Nephrology
• 2080P0214XPediatric Pulmonology
• 2080P0216XPediatric Rheumatology
• 2080S0010XSports Medicine
• 2080S0012XSleep Medicine
• 2080T0002XMedical Toxicology
• 2080T0004XPediatric Transplant Hepatology