Tip: Updated Place of Service/Facility Type Codes

Number

0149

Submitting Entity (SE)

All

Add Date

Feb 1, 2024

Update Date

 

Update

Included in February 2024

Description

Periodically, CMS updates place of service/facility type codes are updated. This data tip lists recent changes. These have been updated in https://achiapcd.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ADRS/pages/3352100865

The table below contains the codes and definitions that have been updated.

 

 

Active/Resolved

Active

Action / Resolution

 

Category 1

Place of Service

Category 2

Data Quality

Tip / Issue

Tip

Place of Service Code(s)

Place of Service Name

Place of Service Description

Place of Service Code(s)

Place of Service Name

Place of Service Description

02

Telehealth Provided Other than in Patient’s Home

The location where health services and health related services are provided or received, through telecommunication technology. Patient is not located in their home when receiving health services or health related services through telecommunication technology. (Effective January 1, 2017)
(Description change effective January 1, 2022, and applicable for Medicare April 1, 2022.)

10

Telehealth Provided in Patient’s Home

(Previously unassigned)

The location where health services and health related services are provided or received, through telecommunication technology. Patient is located in their home (which is a location other than a hospital or other facility where the patient receives care in a private residence) when receiving health services or health related services through telecommunication technology.
(This code is effective January 1, 2022, and available to Medicare April 1, 2022.)

27

Outreach Site/ Street

(Previously unassigned)

 

A non-permanent location on the street or found environment, not described by any other POS code, where health professionals provide preventive, screening, diagnostic, and/or
treatment services to unsheltered homeless individuals. (Effective October 1, 2023)

58

Non-residential Opioid Treatment Facility

(Previously unassigned)

A location that provides treatment for opioid use disorder on an ambulatory basis. Services include methadone and other forms of Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT). (Effective January 1, 2020)

(Previously unassigned)