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173000000XCurrent NUCC CodeIndividual Providers

Legal Medicine Providers

Other Service Providers → Legal Medicine

1,858 active providers in NPISignal’s imported NPPES dataset report this code as their primary taxonomy.

NUCC Definition

Taxonomy code
173000000X
Grouping
Other Service Providers
Classification
Legal Medicine
NUCC display name
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.

NUCC Source Notes

Source: Rhea, Ott, and Shafritz, The Facts On File Dictionary of Health Care Management, New York: Facts On File Publications, 1988.

Providers

A sample of active providers reporting this taxonomy code.

Where These Providers Practice

States with the most active providers reporting this taxonomy code.