---
title: "Nephrologist"
slug: "ckd-key-concepts-nephrologist"
updated: 2023-05-16T21:47:30Z
published: 2023-05-16T21:47:30Z
canonical: "docs.ursahealth.com/ckd-key-concepts-nephrologist"
stale: true
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.ursahealth.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Nephrologist

## **Definition**

A physician specializing in nephrology, identified by the presence of a qualifying primary NUCC provider taxonomy code.

## **Purpose**

Used in the URSA-CKD module to identify clinician office visits with nephrology providers, of which nephrologists are a subset.

## **Related objects**

- [**Providers**](https://docs.ursahealth.com/docs/core-objects-providers)
- [**Nephrologists and Nephrology Group Providers**](/v1/docs/ckd-objects-nephrologists-and-nephrology-group-providers)
- [**Clinician Office Visits with Nephrology Provider**](/v1/docs/ckd-objects-clinician-office-visit-with-nephrology-provider)
- [**Patient Timelines of Empirical Attribution to Nephrology Provider**](/v1/docs/ckd-objects-patient-timelines-master-for-ursa-ckd-concepts)

## **Detailed narrative of logic**

1. As implemented in **Nephrologists and Nephrology Group Providers**, providers in **Providers**— which includes both individual and organizational providers — are included if they have a qualifying primary NUCC provider taxonomy code (see value set NEPHROLOGY SPECIALTY) or if the provider description includes the words “nephrology” or “nephrologist.”
2. Records in **Nephrologists and Nephrology Group Providers** associated with individual nephrologists have the field Is Individual Provider = 1.