New Place of Service (POS) Code for Walk-in Retail Health Clinic
This article, based on CR 6752, advises you that the current place of service (POS) code set has been updated to add a new code of 17 (Walk-in Retail Health Clinic). The code’s description is as follows: “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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Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Issue Date: December 30, 2009
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