Place of Service

Place of Service (POS)

There are plenty of Place of Service. It indicates where the service wa rendered basically, the place where doctor provided the service to the patient. This place of service needs to mention in the claim form in order to process the claim. It is one of the vital point to process a claim correctly.

Some of the Commonly Used POS:

POS 11: Office

POS 12: Home

POS 15: Mobile Unit

POS 21: Inpatient Hospital

POS 22: Outpatient Hospital

POS 23: Emergency Room

POS 24: Ambulatory Surgical Center 

POS 25: Birthing Center

POS 31: Skilled Nursing Facility

POS 32: Nursing Facility

POS 33: Custodial Care Facility (Provides Room, Board & personal assistance on a long term basis& does not include medical components

POS 51: Inpatient Psychiatric Facility.

POS 52: Psychiatric Facility -Partial Hospitalization

POS 55: Residential Substance abuse.

POS 56: Psychiatric Residential Treatment Center

POS 57: Non Residential Substance Abuse

POS 65: End stage Renal Disease Treatment facility.

POS 81: Independent Laboratory.

All Place of Services:

01: Pharmacy

02: Telehealth

03: School

04: Homeless Shelter

05: Indian Health Service Freestanding Facility

06: Indian Helath Service Provider

07: Tribal 638 Free standing Facility.

08: Tribal 638 Provider based Facility.

09: Prison / Correctional Facility.

10: Unassigned

13: Assisted Living Facility.

14: Group Home

16: Temporary Lodging

17:  Walk in Retail Health Clinic

18: Place of Employment Worksite

19: Offcampus Outpatient Hospital

20: Urgent Care

22: On Campus Outpatient Hospital

26: Military Treatment Facility

27: Unassigned

28: Unassigned

29: Unassigned

30: Unassigned

34: Hospice

35: Unassigned

36: Unassigned

37: Unassigned

38: Unassigned

39: Unassigned

40: Unassigned

41: Ambulance - Land

42: Ambulance - Air or Water

43: Unassigned

44: Unassigned

45: Unassigned

46: Unassigned

47: Unassigned

48: Unassigned

49: Independent Clinic

50: Federally Qualified Health Center

53: Community Mental Health Center

54: Intermediate Care Facility / Individhals with Intellectual Disabilities

58: Unassigned

59: Unassigned