What is facility in medical billing

A facility includes an outpatient department. Some medical practices have a designation of provider based, and use outpatient as the correct place of service and some practices are departments of the hospital.

What is considered a facility?

Facilities are defined as any provider (e.g., hospital, skilled nursing facility, home health agency, outpatient physical therapy, comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facility, end-stage renal disease facility, hospice, physician, non-physician provider, laboratory, supplier, etc.)

What are 3 different types of billing systems?

Outpatient facility coding is the assignment of ICD-10-CM, CPT^®, and HCPCS Level II codes to outpatient facility procedures or services for billing and tracking purposes.