POS 50 in Medical Billing: The Federally Qualified Health Center Place of Service Code

POS 50 is the place of service code for a Federally Qualified Health Center, a facility in a medically underserved area that provides preventive primary medical care under the general direction of a physician. Most FQHC billing teams assume POS 50 drives their prospective payment system rate. It doesn’t. Medicare prices the encounter off the […]