Providers not otherwise classified, who perform or administer services in or related to the delivery or research of health care services, disease, and restoration of health. An individual provider who is not represented in one of the identified categories but whose data may be needed for clinical, operational or administrative processes.
\nThis value set includes codes based on the following rules:
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| 171100000N | Other Service Providers; Acupuncturist | An acupuncturist is a person who performs ancient therapy for alleviation of pain, anesthesia and treatment of some diseases. Acupuncturists use long, fine needles inserted into specific points in order to treat painful conditions or produce anesthesia. |
| 172A00000N | Other Service Providers; Driver | A person employed to operate a motor vehicle as a carrier of persons or property. |
| 173000000N | Other Service Providers; Legal Medicine | The specialty areas of medicine concerned with matters of, and relations with, substantive law and legal institutions; such as the conduct of medical examinations at crime scenes, performance of autopsies, giving of expert medical testimony in judicial proceedings, medical treatment of inmates of penal institutions, the practice of trauma medicine in law enforcement settings, and other clinical practice and medical science applications in the fields of law, law enforcement, and corrections. |
| 175F00000N | Other Service Providers; Naturopath | An individual who practices naturopathy, a system of therapeutics in which neither surgical nor medicinal agents are used, dependence being placed only on natural (nonmedicinal) forces. |
| 175L00000N | Other Service Providers; Homeopath | A provider who is educated and trained in a system of therapeutics in which diseases are treated by drugs which are capable of producing in healthy persons symptoms like those of the disease to be treated. Treatment requires administering a drug in minute doses. |
| 175M00000N | Other Service Providers; Midwife, Lay (Non-nurse) | A person qualified by experience and limited specialized training to provide obstetric and neo-natal care in the management of women having normal pregnancy, labor and childbirth. The lay midwife is licensed in some states. |
| 176P00000N | Other Service Providers; Funeral Director | A person, usually an embalmer, whose business is to arrange for the burial or cremation of the dead and to assist at the funeral rites. |