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

POS 50 in medical billing 2026 hero banner: the Federally Qualified Health Center place of service code and its non-facility designation, the disconnect between POS 50 on the professional claim and the institutional G0466-G0470 and revenue code payment that actually prices the FQHC PPS encounter, when an FQHC does and doesn't report POS 50 across telehealth, SNF, and home settings, the POS 50 versus POS 71 designation test for county health departments, and the CY 2026 $207.72 base rate with its enhanced new-patient and preventive-visit adjustment, from One O Seven RCM.

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 […]

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