# Provider Specialties — AutoSugges platform dataset

## How do I add Provider Specialties autocomplete to my app?

Provider Specialties is a free AutoSugges reference list of 583 items. Query it with your publishable key as the key parameter and the typed text as q, after at least two characters. Results come back pre-ranked from the edge, ten by default, ready for the AutoSugges React, React Native or HTML component.

CMS's Medicare Provider and Supplier Taxonomy Crosswalk: provider specialties and the Health Care Provider Taxonomy codes CMS maps them to. This is CMS’s Medicare subset of the NUCC-maintained taxonomy, not the complete code set.

583 items, across levels: type, classification, taxonomy_code.
Level breakdown: type: 26, classification: 98, taxonomy_code: 459.

## Provenance
Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) (https://data.cms.gov/sites/default/files/2026-08/c90ddab5-0837-4b87-bd01-1f1831117909/Medicare_Provider_and_Supplier_Taxonomy_Crosswalk_August_2026.csv)
Retrieved: 2026-09-27, effective version August 2026
Authority: authoritative
Licence: U.S. Government work. Not subject to copyright protection in the United States (17 U.S.C. §105). (public_domain)
Attribution: Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Medicare Provider and Supplier Taxonomy Crosswalk, August 2026. The underlying Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set is maintained by the National Uniform Claim Committee (NUCC); this list is CMS’s Medicare subset of it, not the complete NUCC set.
Export allowed: yes

## Availability
Free

## Authority
Authoritative

## Dataset kind
Reference list

## Worked example
```json
{
  "value": "101YM0800X",
  "displayValue": "Mental Health Counselor",
  "aliases": [
    "101YM0800X",
    "Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers/Counselor",
    "Mental Health Counselor"
  ],
  "metadata": {
    "medicareSpecialtyCode": "E2",
    "specialties": [
      "Mental Health Counselor"
    ]
  },
  "ancestors": [
    {
      "value": "type:behavioral-health-social-service-providers",
      "displayValue": "Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers"
    },
    {
      "value": "classification:behavioral-health-social-service-providers/counselor",
      "displayValue": "Counselor"
    }
  ]
}
```

## Query it
```
/v1/query?key=YOUR_PUBLISHABLE_KEY&q=mental
```

A publishable key is public by design and belongs in client code as written; it is not a secret.

## Frequently asked questions

### What is in the Provider Specialties dataset?

CMS's Medicare Provider and Supplier Taxonomy Crosswalk: provider specialties and the Health Care Provider Taxonomy codes CMS maps them to. This is CMS’s Medicare subset of the NUCC-maintained taxonomy, not the complete code set. It has 583 items. Its source is Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Authority: Authoritative. Licence: U.S. Government work. Not subject to copyright protection in the United States (17 U.S.C. §105). Refresh cadence: As CMS republishes the crosswalk, typically several times a year.

### Is the Provider Specialties dataset free?

AutoSugges-published free datasets are never priced on their own — every plan includes all of them. What a plan prices is how many queries you may make, not which free list you may query. A few catalog entries are licensed from a third party or supplied by you, and those carry their own access terms, shown on that dataset's own page.

### How do I query Provider Specialties?

Call GET /v1/query with your publishable key as the key parameter and the typed text as q, or mount the AutoSugges component for React, React Native or HTML. The runtime answers from the edge and never reads a database.

### What is the minimum number of characters before a query runs?

Two by default. A list owner can change the minimum, but it can never be 1. The client reads the real value from bootstrap and sends no request below it, so do not hardcode it.

### How long does the client wait after typing before it queries?

150 milliseconds by default. The value is delivered through bootstrap and a list owner can raise it, so the client uses the policy value rather than a constant.

### What happens when my query quota runs out?

The runtime returns a structured quota_exceeded response that carries no items and no placeholder suggestions, so exhaustion is never mistaken for no results. Render it from the typed error code and prompt an upgrade.

---
Canonical page: https://autosugges.com/datasets/provider-specialties