artemkoverchik/taxonomies_rag huggingface dataset:
Pathology Specialist/Technologist (246Q00000X)
Group: Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers
Classification: Specialist/Technologist, Pathology
Definition: (1) An individual educated and trained in clinical chemistry, microbiology or other biological sciences; and in gathering data on the blood, tissues, and fluids in the human body. Tests and procedures performed or supervised center on major areas of hematology, microbiology, immunohematology, immunology, clinical chemistry and urinalysis. Education and certification requires the equivalent of an associate degree and alternative combinations of accredited training and experience. (2) A specially trained individual who works under the direction of a pathologist, other physician, or scientist, and performs specialized chemical, microscopic, and bacteriological tests of human blood, tissue, and fluids. Also known as medical technologists, they perform and supervise tests and procedures in clinical chemistry, immunology, serology, bacteriology, hematology, parasitology, mycology, urinalysis, and blood banking. The work requires the correlation of test results with other data, interpretation of test findings, and exercise of independent judgment. The minimum educational requirement (for one of several certification programs in medical technology) is a baccalaureate degree with appropriate science course requirements, plus a twelve-month, structured, AMA approved medical technology program and an examination; or a baccalaureate degree with appropriate science course requirements and experience.
Blood Banking Specialist/Technologist (246QB0000X)
Group: Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers
Classification: Specialist/Technologist, Pathology
Specialization: Blood Banking
Definition: Definition to come...
Chemistry Pathology Specialist/Technologist (246QC1000X)
Group: Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers
Classification: Specialist/Technologist, Pathology
Specialization: Chemistry
Definition: Definition to come...
Cytotechnology Specialist/Technologist (246QC2700X)
Group: Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers
Classification: Specialist/Technologist, Pathology
Specialization: Cytotechnology
Definition: Definition to come...
Hemapheresis Practitioner (246QH0401X)
Group: Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers
Classification: Specialist/Technologist, Pathology
Specialization: Hemapheresis Practitioner
Definition: Definition to come...
Hematology Specialist/Technologist (246QH0000X)
Group: Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers
Classification: Specialist/Technologist, Pathology
Specialization: Hematology
Definition: Definition to come...
Histology Specialist/Technologist (246QH0600X)
Group: Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers
Classification: Specialist/Technologist, Pathology
Specialization: Histology
Definition: Definition to come...
Immunology Pathology Specialist/Technologist (246QI0000X)
Group: Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers
Classification: Specialist/Technologist, Pathology
Specialization: Immunology
Definition: Definition to come...
Laboratory Management Specialist/Technologist (246QL0900X)
Group: Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers
Classification: Specialist/Technologist, Pathology
Specialization: Laboratory Management
Definition: Definition to come...
Diplomate Laboratory Management Specialist/Technologist (246QL0901X)
Group: Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers
Classification: Specialist/Technologist, Pathology
Specialization: Laboratory Management, Diplomate
Definition: Definition to come...
Medical Technologist (246QM0706X)
Group: Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers
Classification: Specialist/Technologist, Pathology
Specialization: Medical Technologist
Definition: Definition to come...
Microbiology Specialist/Technologist (246QM0900X)
Group: Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers
Classification: Specialist/Technologist, Pathology
Specialization: Microbiology
Definition: Definition to come...
Cardiology Technician (246W00000X)
Group: Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers
Classification: Technician, Cardiology
Definition: An individual who has knowledge of specific techniques, instruments, and equipment required in performing specific cardiovascular/peripheral vascular diagnostic procedures.
Health Information Technician (247000000X)
Group: Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers
Classification: Technician, Health Information
Definition: Preferred term for an Accredited Record Technician who is an individual with an associate's degree from an accredited college or independent study program who is skilled in analyzing health information and in examination of medical records for accuracy, reporting of patient data for reimbursement, and creation of disease registries for researchers.
Assistant Health Information Record Technician (2470A2800X)
Group: Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers
Classification: Technician, Health Information
Specialization: Assistant Record Technician
Definition: None
Other Technician (247200000X)
Group: Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers
Classification: Technician, Other
Definition: A collective term for persons with specialized training in various narrow fields of expertise whose occupations require training and skills in specific technical processes and procedures; and where further classification is deemed unnecessary by the user.
Biomedical Engineering Technician (2472B0301X)
Group: Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers
Classification: Technician, Other
Specialization: Biomedical Engineering
Definition: None
Darkroom Technician (2472D0500X)
Group: Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers
Classification: Technician, Other
Specialization: Darkroom
Definition: None
EEG Technician (2472E0500X)
Group: Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers
Classification: Technician, Other
Specialization: EEG
Definition: Definition to come...
Renal Dialysis Technician (2472R0900X)
Group: Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers
Classification: Technician, Other
Specialization: Renal Dialysis
Definition: Definition to come...
Veterinary Technician (2472V0600X)
Group: Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers
Classification: Technician, Other
Specialization: Veterinary
Definition: None
Pathology Technician (246R00000X)
Group: Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers
Classification: Technician, Pathology
Definition: An individual with knowledge of specific techniques and instruments who performs all of the routine tests in a medical laboratory and who has the ability to discriminate between similar factors that directly affect procedures and results.
Clinical Laboratory Director (Non-physician) (247ZC0005X)
Group: Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers
Classification: Technician, Pathology
Specialization: Clinical Laboratory Director, Non-physician
Definition: An individual who is state-licensed as a clinical laboratory director and meets the qualifications in the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 for non-physicians (non-MD/DO) as defined in the CFR 42 Part 493.1405.
Histology Technician (246RH0600X)
Group: Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers
Classification: Technician, Pathology
Specialization: Histology
Definition: Definition to come...
Medical Laboratory Technician (246RM2200X)
Group: Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers
Classification: Technician, Pathology
Specialization: Medical Laboratory
Definition: Definition to come...
Phlebotomy Technician (246RP1900X)
Group: Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers
Classification: Technician, Pathology
Specialization: Phlebotomy
Definition: Definition to come...
Case Management Agency (251B00000X)
Group: Agencies
Classification: Case Management
Definition: An organization that is responsible for providing case management services.  The agency provides services which assist an individual in gaining access to needed medical, social, educational, and/or other services.  Case management services may be used to locate, coordinate, and monitor necessary appropriate services.  It may be used to encourage the use of cost-effective medical care by referrals to appropriate providers and to discourage over utilization of costly services.  Case management may also serve to provide necessary coordination of non-medical services such as vocational rehabilitation, education, employment, when the services provided enable the individual to function at the highest level.
Community/Behavioral Health Agency (251S00000X)
Group: Agencies
Classification: Community/Behavioral Health
Definition: A private or public agency usually under local government jurisdiction, responsible for assuring the delivery of community based mental health, intellectual disabilities, substance abuse and/or behavioral health services to individuals with those disabilities. Services may range from companion care, respite, transportation, community integration, crisis intervention and stabilization, supported employment, day support, prevocational services, residential support, therapeutic and supportive consultation, environmental modifications, intensive in-home therapy and day treatment, in addition to traditional mental health and behavioral treatment.
Developmentally Disabled Services Day Training Agency (251C00000X)
Group: Agencies
Classification: Day Training, Developmentally Disabled Services
Definition: These agencies are authorized to provide day habilitation services to developmentally disabled individuals who live in their homes.  The function of day habilitation is to assist an individual to acquire and maintain those life skills that enable the individual to cope more effectively with the demands of independent living.  Also to raise the level of the individual's physical, mental, social, and vocational functioning.
Early Intervention Provider Agency (252Y00000X)
Group: Agencies
Classification: Early Intervention Provider Agency
Definition: Early intervention services are an effective way to address the needs of infants and toddlers who have developmental delays or disabilities. The services are made available through a federal law known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). IDEA provides states and territories with specific requirements for providing early intervention services to infants and toddlers with special needs. In turn, each state and territory develops its own policies for carrying out IDEA and its requirements. Broadly speaking, early intervention services are special services for eligible infants and toddlers and their families. These services are designed to identify and meet children's needs in five developmental areas. These areas are: physical development, cognitive development, communication, social or emotional development, and adaptive development.
Foster Care Agency (253J00000X)
Group: Agencies
Classification: Foster Care Agency
Definition: A Foster Care Agency is an agency that provides foster care as defined in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) as "24-hour substitute care for children outside their own homes." Foster care settings include, but are not limited to, nonrelative foster family homes, relative foster homes (whether payments are being made or not), group homes, emergency shelters, residential facilities, and pre-adoptive homes.
Home Health Agency (251E00000X)
Group: Agencies
Classification: Home Health
Definition: A public agency or private organization, or a subdivision of such an agency or organization, that is primarily engaged in providing skilled nursing services and other therapeutic services, such as physical therapy, speech-language pathology services, or occupational therapy, medical social services, and home health aide services. It has policies established by a professional group associated with the agency or organization (including at least one physician and one registered nurse) to govern the services and provides for supervision of such services by a physician or a registered nurse; maintains clinical records on all patients; is licensed in accordance with State or local law or is approved by the State or local licensing agency as meeting the licensing standards, where applicable; and meets other conditions found by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to be necessary for health and safety.
Home Infusion Agency (251F00000X)
Group: Agencies
Classification: Home Infusion
Definition: Definition to come...
Community Based Hospice Care Agency (251G00000X)
Group: Agencies
Classification: Hospice Care, Community Based
Definition: Definition to come...
In Home Supportive Care Agency (253Z00000X)
Group: Agencies
Classification: In Home Supportive Care
Definition: An In Home Supportive Care Agency provides services in the patient's home with the goal of enabling the patient to remain at home.  The services provided may include personal care services such as hands-on assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs), e.g., eating, bathing, dressing, and bladder and bowel requirements; homemaker services and instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs), e.g., taking medications, shopping for groceries, laundry, housekeeping, and companionship; and/or supervision or cuing so that a person can perform tasks themselves.
Local Education Agency (LEA) (251300000X)
Group: Agencies
Classification: Local Education Agency (LEA)
Definition: The term local education agency means a public board of education or other public authority legally constituted within a State to either provide administrative control or direction of, or perform a service function for public schools serving individuals ages 0 - 21 in a state, city, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision including a combination of school districts or counties recognized in a State as an administrative agency for its public schools.  An LEA may provide, or employ professional who provide, services to children included in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), such services may include, but are not limited to, such medical services as physical, occupational, and speech therapy.
Nursing Care Agency (251J00000X)
Group: Agencies
Classification: Nursing Care
Definition: A Nursing Care Agency is an entity that provides skilled nursing care through the services of a Registered Nurse (RN) or a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), by employees, contracted individuals, or via a registry, in a variety of settings. The agency may engage in providing private duty nursing and/or staffing services.
PACE Provider Organization (251T00000X)
Group: Agencies
Classification: Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) Provider Organization
Definition: A PACE provider organization is a not-for-profit private or public entity that is primarily engaged in providing PACE services(unique capitated managed care benefits for the frail elderly which include comprehensive medical and social services).  The following characteristics also apply to a PACE organization.  It must:  have a governing board that includes community representation; be able to provide complete PACE services regardless of frequency or duration of services; have a physical site to provide adult day services; have a defined service area; have safeguards against conflict of interest; have demonstrated fiscal soundness and have a formal Participant Bill of Rights.
Public Health or Welfare Agency (251K00000X)
Group: Agencies
Classification: Public Health or Welfare
Definition: Definition to come...
Supports Brokerage Agency (251X00000X)
Group: Agencies
Classification: Supports Brokerage
Definition: A provider of service/function that assists participating individuals to make informed decisions about what will work best for them is consistent with their needs and reflects their individual circumstances. Serving as the agent of the individual, the service is available to assist in identifying immediate and long-term needs, developing options to meet those needs and accessing identified supports and services and may include assistance with recruiting, screening, hiring, and training in-home support providers. A family or person-centered planning approach is used. Supports Brokerage offers practical skills training to enable families and individuals to remain independent. Examples of skills training include providing information on recruiting and hiring personal care workers, managing personal care workers and providing information on effective communication and problem solving. The service/function provides sufficient information to assure that individuals understand the responsibilities involved with self-direction and assist in the development of an effective back-up and emergency plan. Plans may elect to fulfill the requirement of this service/function using a self-directed case manager or creating a distinct service. The Supports Brokerage documents the need for assistive services, planning for and documenting the use of excess funds and locating and maintaining services.
Voluntary or Charitable Agency (251V00000X)
Group: Agencies
Classification: Voluntary or Charitable
Definition: Definition to come...
Clinic/Center (261Q00000X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Definition: A facility or distinct part of one used for the diagnosis and treatment of outpatients. "Clinic/Center" is irregularly defined, sometimes being limited to organizations serving specialized treatment requirements or distinct patient/client groups (e.g., radiology, poor, and public health).
Adolescent and Children Mental Health Clinic/Center (261QM0855X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Adolescent and Children Mental Health
Definition: An entity, facility, or distinct part of a facility providing diagnostic, treatment, and prescriptive services related to mental and behavioral disorders in children and adolescents.  Services may be provided to parents and family members of the patient in the form of conjoint, group, or individual therapy, and education and/or training.
Adult Day Care Clinic/Center (261QA0600X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Adult Day Care
Definition: Definition to come...
Adult Mental Health Clinic/Center (261QM0850X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Adult Mental Health
Definition: An entity, facility, or distinct part of a facility providing diagnostic, treatment, and prescriptive services related to mental and behavioral disorders in adults.
Ambulatory Family Planning Facility (261QA0005X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Ambulatory Family Planning Facility
Definition: An abortion/family planning facility where services are provided at a fixed specific location.  An Ambulatory Family Planning Facility does not provide overnight accommodations. The following procedures may be performed at an Ambulatory Family Planning Facility: abortions, laproscopy, hysterectomies, tubule ligation and other related procedures. Abortion is considered voluntary termination of pregnancy.
Ambulatory Fertility Facility (261QA0006X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Ambulatory Fertility Facility
Definition: A fertility facility, which may be licensed, registered, or certified in some states,  that is not hospital-based, where services are provided at a fixed specific location. An Ambulatory Fertility Facility does not provide overnight accommodations. The following fertility procedures may be performed at an Ambulatory Fertility Facility: In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), Gamete Intrafallopian Transfer (GIFT), Embryo Transfer-Thaw (ET-T), Zygote Intrafallopian Transfer (ZIFT), Donor OOCYTE (DO)
Ambulatory Surgical Clinic/Center (261QA1903X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Ambulatory Surgical
Definition: Definition to come...
Amputee Clinic/Center (261QA0900X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Amputee
Definition: An entity, facility, or distinct part of a facility providing counseling, fitting, custom design, prescriptive, and training services related to congenital or postoperative absence of all or part of a limb or limbs.
Augmentative Communication Clinic/Center (261QA3000X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Augmentative Communication
Definition: An entity, facility, or distinct part of a facility staffed by audiology and/or speech professionals with special training in the evaluation of a patient's potential for use of an augmentative communication device, determination of the most appropriate device, adjustment and maintenance of the device, and training the patient to use the device.
Birthing Clinic/Center (261QB0400X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Birthing
Definition: A freestanding birth center is a health facility other than a hospital where childbirth is planned to occur away from the pregnant woman's residence, and that provides prenatal, labor and delivery, and postpartum care, as well as other ambulatory services for women and newborns.
Community Health Clinic/Center (261QC1500X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Community Health
Definition: Definition to come...
Corporate Health Clinic/Center (261QC1800X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Corporate Health
Definition: Definition to come...
Critical Access Hospital Clinic/Center (261QC0050X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Critical Access Hospital
Definition: An outpatient entity, facility, or distinct part of a facility within or affiliated with a Critical Access Hospital that provides access to primary care services for individuals in a small rural community and is Medicare certified.
Dental Clinic/Center (261QD0000X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Dental
Definition: Definition to come...
Developmental Disabilities Clinic/Center (261QD1600X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Developmental Disabilities
Definition: An entity, facility, or distinct part of a facility providing comprehensive, multidiscipline diagnostic, treatment, therapy, training, and counseling services to children with congenital disorders that precipitate developmental delays and in many instances mental deficiencies (e.g., Cerebral Palsy, metabolic disorders, Sturge-Weber Syndrome, etc.).
Emergency Care Clinic/Center (261QE0002X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Emergency Care
Definition: Definition to come...
End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Treatment Clinic/Center (261QE0700X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Treatment
Definition: Definition to come...
Endoscopy Clinic/Center (261QE0800X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Endoscopy
Definition: Definition to come...
Non-Surgical Family Planning Clinic/Center (261QF0050X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Family Planning, Non-Surgical
Definition: An entity, facility, or distinct part of a facility, or mobile unit providing non-surgical, family planning/reproductive services including physical examination, laboratory services such as PAP or pregnancy tests; pregnancy, pregnancy prevention/contraceptive, and nutritional counseling, and contraceptives or prescriptions for contraceptives.
Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) (261QF0400X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)
Definition: Definition to come...
Genetics Clinic/Center (261QG0250X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Genetics
Definition: An entity, facility, or distinct part of a facility providing analysis of family history, genetic laboratory testing and analysis, diagnosis of genetic trait, prognosis and options.  Laboratory studies may be outsourced.
Health Service Clinic/Center (261QH0100X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Health Service
Definition: Definition to come...
Hearing and Speech Clinic/Center (261QH0700X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Hearing and Speech
Definition: An entity, facility, or distinct part of a facility providing diagnostic, treatment, prescriptive, and therapy services related to congenital and acquired conditions and diseases that affect hearing capacity and speech ability.
Infusion Therapy Clinic/Center (261QI0500X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Infusion Therapy
Definition: Definition to come...
Lithotripsy Clinic/Center (261QL0400X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Lithotripsy
Definition: Definition to come...
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Clinic/Center (261QM1200X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Definition: Definition to come...
Medical Specialty Clinic/Center (261QM2500X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Medical Specialty
Definition: An entity, facility, or distinct part of a facility providing diagnostic, treatment, and prescriptive services related to a specific area of medical specialization.  Frequently used for Title V related Children's Specialty services or to meet specific public health needs (e.g., infectious diseases or breast and cervical cancer).
Medically Fragile Infants and Children Day Care (261QM3000X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Medically Fragile Infants and Children Day Care
Definition: An entity, facility, or distinct part of a facility specially equipped and staffed to provide care for medically fragile children with varied and complex care needs (e.g., enteral or parental feeding, ostomy care, respiratory/ventilator care, medications and therapies, etc.).
Mental Health Clinic/Center (Including Community Mental Health Center) (261QM0801X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Mental Health (Including Community Mental Health Center)
Definition: Definition to come...
Methadone Clinic (261QM2800X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Methadone
Definition: An entity, facility, or distinct part of a facility providing diagnostic, and replacement maintenance treatment services related to individuals with drug addiction.
Migrant Health Clinic/Center (261QM1000X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Migrant Health
Definition: Definition to come...
Military Ambulatory Procedure Visits Operational (Transportable) Clinic/Center (261QM1103X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Military Ambulatory Procedure Visits Operational (Transportable)
Definition: Non-fixed" facilities or distinct parts of a "non-fixed" facility, providing outpatient surgical procedures requiring medically supervised recovery. Does not include items issued directly to a patient from an outpatient pharmacy or patient transport. Includes initial "take home" pharmaceuticals.
Military and U.S. Coast Guard Ambulatory Procedure Clinic/Center (261QM1101X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Military and U.S. Coast Guard Ambulatory Procedure
Definition: That part of a "fixed" (non-temporary, non-deployed) DoD or Coast Guard entity furnishing surgical procedures requiring medically supervised recovery.  Similar to a civilian ambulatory surgical center.  May be in shared resources with a DoD or Coast Guard Clinic or a DoD Hospital.  Does not include items issued directly to a patient from an outpatient pharmacy or patient transport.  Includes initial "take home" pharmaceuticals.
Military Outpatient Operational (Transportable) Component Clinic/Center (261QM1102X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Military Outpatient Operational (Transportable) Component
Definition: Non-fixed" facilities or distinct parts of a "non-fixed" facility, providing outpatient medical and dental services, primarily intended for DoD active duty. The entity is funded with other than Defense Health Program funding. Non-DoD active duty may receive services from this entity. "Non-fixed" facilities are generally deployed DoD health care activities, not providing services on or in association with a DoD fort or base. "Non-fixed" facilities include outpatient services furnished onboard ships. "Non-fixed" facilities also include deployed clinics. Does not include items issued directly to a patient from an outpatient pharmacy or patient transport.
Military/U.S. Coast Guard Outpatient Clinic/Center (261QM1100X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Military/U.S. Coast Guard Outpatient
Definition: The Defense Health Program or U.S. Coast Guard funded "fixed" facilities or distinct parts of a facility, providing outpatient medical and dental services, primarily for Uniformed Services beneficiaries.  A "fixed" facility is a non-temporary, non-deployed facility.  It includes mobile specialty units such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) units that may furnish services at the "fixed" facility.  It includes, as examples, the institutional portion of outpatient encounters (except Ambulatory Procedure Visits), supplies issued (e.g., glasses, ostomy supplies, crutches), and radiology and laboratory studies.  Does not include items issued directly to a patient from an outpatient pharmacy or patient transport.
Multi-Specialty Clinic/Center (261QM1300X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Multi-Specialty
Definition: Definition to come...
Occupational Medicine Clinic/Center (261QX0100X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Occupational Medicine
Definition: Definition to come...
Oncology Clinic/Center (261QX0200X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Oncology
Definition: An entity, facility, or distinct part of a facility providing diagnostic, treatment and prescriptive services related to cancerous conditions.  Services include chemotherapy infusions and monitoring of implanted chemotherapeutic agents.
Radiation Oncology Clinic/Center (261QX0203X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Oncology, Radiation
Definition: Definition to come...
Ophthalmologic Surgery Clinic/Center (261QS0132X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Ophthalmologic Surgery
Definition: Definition to come...
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinic/Center (261QS0112X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Definition: The specialty of dentistry which includes the diagnosis, surgical and adjunctive treatment of diseases, injuries and defects involving both the functional and esthetic aspects of the hard and soft tissues of the oral and maxillofacial region.
Pain Clinic/Center (261QP3300X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Pain
Definition: Definition to come...
Physical Therapy Clinic/Center (261QP2000X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Physical Therapy
Definition: An entity, facility, or distinct part of a facility providing diagnostic and treatment services related to physical rehabilitation. Physical therapy is a dynamic profession with an established theoretical and scientific base and widespread clinical applications in the restoration, maintenance, and promotion of optimal physical function. Physical therapists and physical therapist assistants are licensed health care professionals who are experts in the movement system and help individuals maintain, restore, and improve movement, activity, and functioning, thereby enabling optimal performance and enhancing health, well-being, and quality of life. Their services prevent, minimize, or eliminate impairments of body functions and structures, activity limitations, and participation restrictions. Physical therapy is provided for individuals of all ages who have or may develop impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions related to (1) conditions of the musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, cardiovascular, pulmonary, and/or integumentary systems or (2) the negative effects attributable to unique personal and environmental factors as they relate to human performance.
Podiatric Clinic/Center (261QP1100X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Podiatric
Definition: Definition to come...
Primary Care Clinic/Center (261QP2300X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Primary Care
Definition: Definition to come...
Prison Health Clinic/Center (261QP2400X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Prison Health
Definition: Definition to come...
Federal Public Health Clinic/Center (261QP0904X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Public Health, Federal
Definition: Definition to come...
State or Local Public Health Clinic/Center (261QP0905X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Public Health, State or Local
Definition: Definition to come...
Radiology Clinic/Center (261QR0200X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Radiology
Definition: Definition to come...
Mammography Clinic/Center (261QR0206X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Radiology, Mammography
Definition: Definition to come...
Mobile Radiology Clinic/Center (261QR0208X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Radiology, Mobile
Definition: Definition to come...
Mobile Mammography Clinic/Center (261QR0207X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Radiology, Mobile Mammography
Definition: Definition to come...
Recovery Care Clinic/Center (261QR0800X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Recovery Care
Definition: Definition to come...
Rehabilitation Clinic/Center (261QR0400X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Rehabilitation
Definition: Definition to come...
Cardiac Rehabilitation Clinic/Center (261QR0404X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Rehabilitation, Cardiac Facilities
Definition: Definition to come...
Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation Facility (CORF) (261QR0401X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Rehabilitation, Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation Facility (CORF)
Definition: Definition to come...
Substance Use Disorder Rehabilitation Clinic/Center (261QR0405X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Rehabilitation, Substance Use Disorder
Definition: Definition to come...
Research Clinic/Center (261QR1100X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Research
Definition: Definition to come...
Rural Health Clinic/Center (261QR1300X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Rural Health
Definition: Definition to come...
Sleep Disorder Diagnostic Clinic/Center (261QS1200X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Sleep Disorder Diagnostic
Definition: Definition to come...
Student Health Clinic/Center (261QS1000X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Student Health
Definition: Definition to come...
Urgent Care Clinic/Center (261QU0200X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: Urgent Care
Definition: Definition to come...
VA Clinic/Center (261QV0200X)
Group: Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Classification: Clinic/Center
Specialization: VA
Definition: Definition to come...
Epilepsy Hospital Unit (273100000X)
Group: Hospital Units
Classification: Epilepsy Unit
Definition: An Epilepsy Unit is a distinct unit of a hospital that provides services that may include observation, urgent care, diagnostic testing, treatment, and medication management for patients with seizure disorders.
Medicare Defined Swing Bed Hospital Unit (275N00000X)
Group: Hospital Units
Classification: Medicare Defined Swing Bed Unit
Definition: A unit of a hospital that has a Medicare provider agreement and has been granted approval from HCFA to provide post-hospital extended care services and be reimbursed as a swing-bed unit.
Psychiatric Hospital Unit (273R00000X)
Group: Hospital Units
Classification: Psychiatric Unit
Definition: In general, a distinct unit of a hospital that provides acute or long-term care to emotionally disturbed patients, including patients admitted for diagnosis and those admitted for treatment of psychiatric problems on the basis of physicians' orders and approved nursing care plans. Long-term care may include intensive supervision to the chronically mentally ill, mentally disordered or other mentally incompetent persons; (2) For Medicare, a distinct part of a general acute care hospital admitting only patients whose admission to the unit is required for active treatment, whose treatment is of an intensity that can be provided only in an inpatient hospital setting, and whose condition is described by a psychiatric principal diagnosis contained in the Third Edition of the American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual or in Chapter 5 (Mental Disorders) of the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM). The unit must furnish, through the use of qualified personnel, psychological services, social work services, psychiatric nursing, occupational therapy, and recreational therapy. The unit must maintain medical records that permit determination of the degree and intensity of treatment provided to individuals who are furnished services in the unit; the unit must meet special staff requirements in that the unit must have adequate numbers of qualified professional and supportive staff to evaluate inpatients, formulate written, individualized, comprehensive treatment plans, provide active treatment measures and engage in discharge planning.
Rehabilitation Hospital Unit (273Y00000X)
Group: Hospital Units
Classification: Rehabilitation Unit
Definition: In general, a distinct unit of a general acute care hospital that provides care encompassing a comprehensive array of restoration services for the disabled and all support services necessary to help patients attain their maximum functional capacity. Source: AHA Annual Survey p. A10 1996 AHA Guide. For Medicare, a distinct part of a general acute care hospital providing inpatient rehabilitation services that meets the following requirements. Rehabilitation Units have in effect a preadmission screening procedure under which each prospective patient's condition and medical history are reviewed to determine whether the patient is likely to benefit significantly from an intensive inpatient program or assessment; ensure that the patients receive close medical supervision and furnish, through the use of qualified personnel, rehabilitation nursing, physical therapy and occupational therapy, plus, as needed, speech therapy, social services or psychological services and orthotic and prosthetic services; have a plan of treatment for each inpatient that is established, reviewed, and revised as needed by a physician in consultation with other professional personnel who provide services to the patient; use a coordinated multidisciplinary team approach in the rehabilitation of each inpatient, as documented by periodic clinical entries made in the patient's medical record to note the patient's status in relationship to goal attainment, and that team conferences are held at least every two weeks to determine the appropriateness of treatment; have a director of rehabilitation who provides services to the unit and its inpatients for at least 20 hours a week, is a doctor of medicine or osteopathy, is licensed under State law to practice medicine or surgery, and has had, after completing a one-year hospital internship at least two years of training or experience in the medical management of inpatients requiring rehabilitation services.
Substance Use Disorder Rehabilitation Hospital Unit (276400000X)
Group: Hospital Units
Classification: Rehabilitation, Substance Use Disorder Unit
Definition: A distinct part of a hospital that provides medically monitored, interdisciplinary addiction-focused treatment to patients/clients who have psychoactive substance use disorders (commonly referred to as alcohol and drug abuse or substance abuse.)
Deactivated - Christian Science Sanitorium (287300000X)
Group: Hospitals
Classification: Christian Science Sanitorium
Definition: Inactive, use 282J00000X
Chronic Disease Hospital (281P00000X)
Group: Hospitals
Classification: Chronic Disease Hospital
Definition: (1) A hospital including a physical plant and personnel that provides multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment for diseases that have one or more of the following characteristics: is permanent; leaves residual disability; is caused by nonreversible pathological alteration; requires special training of the patient for rehabilitation; and/or may be expected to require a long period of supervision or care. In addition, patients require the safety, security, and shelter of these specialized inpatient or partial hospitalization settings. (2) A hospital that provides medical and skilled nursing services to patients with long-term illnesses who are not in an acute phase but who require an intensity of services not available in nursing homes.
Children's Chronic Disease Hospital (281PC2000X)
Group: Hospitals
Classification: Chronic Disease Hospital
Specialization: Children
Definition: Definition to come...
General Acute Care Hospital (282N00000X)
Group: Hospitals
Classification: General Acute Care Hospital
Definition: An acute general hospital is an institution whose primary function is to provide inpatient diagnostic and therapeutic services for a variety of medical conditions, both surgical and non-surgical, to a wide population group. The hospital treats patients in an acute phase of illness or injury, characterized by a single episode or a fairly short duration, from which the patient returns to his or her normal or previous level of activity.
Children's Hospital (282NC2000X)
Group: Hospitals
Classification: General Acute Care Hospital
Specialization: Children
Definition: Definition to come...
Critical Access Hospital (282NC0060X)
Group: Hospitals
Classification: General Acute Care Hospital
Specialization: Critical Access
Definition: Definition to come.
Rural Acute Care Hospital (282NR1301X)
Group: Hospitals
Classification: General Acute Care Hospital
Specialization: Rural
Definition: Definition to come...
Women's Hospital (282NW0100X)
Group: Hospitals
Classification: General Acute Care Hospital
Specialization: Women
Definition: Definition to come...
Long Term Care Hospital (282E00000X)
Group: Hospitals
Classification: Long Term Care Hospital
Definition: Long-term care hospitals (LTCHs) furnish extended medical and rehabilitative care to individuals who are clinically complex and have multiple acute or chronic conditions.
Military Hospital (286500000X)
Group: Hospitals
Classification: Military Hospital
Definition: A health care facility operated by the Department of Defense.
Deactivated - Military Hospital (2865C1500X)
Group: Hospitals
Classification: Military Hospital
Specialization: Community Health
Military General Acute Care Hospital (2865M2000X)
Group: Hospitals
Classification: Military Hospital
Specialization: Military General Acute Care Hospital
Definition: A Department of Defense (DoD) health care organization furnishing inpatient care 24 hours per day in "fixed" facilities, primarily for DoD beneficiaries. Entity is Defense Health Program (DHP) funded. A "fixed" facility is a non-temporary, non-deployed facility usually used for health care services. It includes mobile specialty units such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) units that may furnish services at the "fixed" facility. It includes those services and institutional costs usually included in a Diagnosis Related Group as well as "pass-through" items.
Operational (Transportable) Military General Acute Care Hospital (2865X1600X)
Group: Hospitals
Classification: Military Hospital
Specialization: Military General Acute Care Hospital. Operational (Transportable)
Definition: A Department of Defense (DoD) health care organization furnishing inpatient care 24 hours per day in "non-fixed" or deployed facilities. Entity is not Defense Health Program funded. Services are primarily intended for DoD active duty though some services may be furnished for non-DoD active duty. "Non-fixed" facilities are generally deployed DoD health care activities, not providing services on or in association with a DoD fort or base. "Non-fixed" facilities include hospital ships.
Psychiatric Hospital (283Q00000X)
Group: Hospitals
Classification: Psychiatric Hospital
Definition: An organization including a physical plant and personnel that provides multidisciplinary diagnostic and treatment mental health services to patients requiring the safety, security, and shelter of the inpatient or partial hospitalization settings.
Rehabilitation Hospital (283X00000X)
Group: Hospitals
Classification: Rehabilitation Hospital
Definition: A hospital or facility that provides health-related, social and/or vocational services to disabled persons to help them attain their maximum functional capacity.
Children's Rehabilitation Hospital (283XC2000X)
Group: Hospitals
Classification: Rehabilitation Hospital
Specialization: Children
Definition: Definition to come...
Religious Nonmedical Health Care Institution (282J00000X)
Group: Hospitals
Classification: Religious Nonmedical Health Care Institution
Definition: Furnishes only nonmedical nursing items and services to patients who choose to rely solely upon a religious method of healing, and for whom the acceptance of medical services would be inconsistent with their religious beliefs.  Furnishes nonmedical items and services exclusively through nonmedical nursing personnel who are experienced in caring for the physical needs of nonmedical patients.  For example, caring for the physical needs such as assistance with activities of daily living; assistance in moving, positioning, and ambulation; nutritional needs; and comfort and support measures.  Furnishes nonmedical items and services to inpatients on a 24-hour basis.  Does not furnish, on the basis of religious beliefs, through its personnel or otherwise, medical items and services (including any medical screening, examination, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, or the administration of drugs) for its patients.
Special Hospital (284300000X)
Group: Hospitals
Classification: Special Hospital
Definition: A designation by the AHA of a hospital whose primary function of the institution is to provide diagnostic and treatment services for patients who have specified medical conditions, both surgical and nonsurgical.