1. Ramona Morales
   Posted 4 months ago #
   

   Please advise what is the correcet place of service code for a Medical Walk in Clinic that also provides additional services of Rehabilitative, theraputic, and urgent walk in care. we are confused by both descriptions for place of 20 and 49. whcih is correct?

2. SuperCoder
   Posted 4 months ago #
   

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   POS code: 17
   POS Name: Walk-in Retail Health Clinic
   POS Description: A walk-in health clinic, other than an office, urgent care facility, pharmacy or independent clinic and not described by any other Place of Service code, that is located within a retail operation and provides, on an ambulatory basis, preventive and primary care services.
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   POS code: 20
   POS Name: Urgent Care Facility
   POS Description: Location, distinct from a hospital emergency room, an office, or a clinic, whose purpose is to diagnose and treat illness or injury for unscheduled, ambulatory patients seeking immediate medical attention.
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   POS code: 49
   POS Name: Independent Clinic
   POS Description: A location, not part of a hospital and not described by any other Place of Service code, that is organized and operated to provide preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic, rehabilitative, or palliative services to outpatients only. (effective 10/1/03)
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   ANALYSIS:
   Urgent care clinics are essentially walk-in clinics but are for more acute illnesses and injuries that are beyond the abilities of a regular walk-in clinic. In terms of this Urgent Care Clinic(20) may be the suitable answer. But, an urgent care clinic primarily is for patients with non-life-threatening injuries or illnesses to relieve the emergency rooms.
   The category of treatment that you described are to provide Rehabilitative, theraputic services in addition to urgent walk-in care. This is what provided by Independent Clinics(49). So, your answer POS is 49.

3. SuperCoder
   Posted 4 months ago #
   

   Answer provided in previous posting.
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