2086S0127X — Trauma Surgery Physician

Grouping

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians

Classification

Surgery

Specialization

Trauma Surgery

Section

Individual

Definition

Trauma surgery is a recognized subspecialty of general surgery. Trauma surgeons are physicians who have completed a five-year general surgery residency and usually continue with a one to two year fellowship in trauma and/or surgical critical care, typically leading to additional board certification in surgical critical care. There is no trauma surgery board certification at this point. To obtain board certification in surgical critical care, a fellowship in surgical critical care or anesthesiology critical care must be completed during or after general surgery residency.

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
• 2086P0122XPhysician Nutrition Specialist
• 2086S0102XSurgical Critical Care
• 2086S0105XSurgery of the Hand
• 2086S0120XPediatric Surgery
• 2086S0122XPlastic and Reconstructive Surgery
• 2086S0129XVascular Surgery
• 2086X0206XSurgical Oncology