A provider, other than a pharmacy, who supplies healthcare related products. The term supplier also includes pharmacies.
\nThis value set includes codes based on the following rules:
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| 331L00000N | Suppliers; Blood Bank | An institution (organization or distinct part thereof) that performs, or is responsible for the performance of, the collection, processing, storage and/or issuance of human blood and blood components, intended for transfusion. The institution may also collect, process, and/or distribute human tissue, including bone marrow and peripheral blood progenitor cells, intended for transplantation. |
| 332G00000N | Suppliers; Eye Bank | An eye bank procures and distributes eyes for transplant, education and research. To promote patient safety, donated eyes and donor medial histories are evaluated based on strict Eye Bank Association of America Medical Standards. |
| 332H00000N | Suppliers; Eyewear Supplier (Equipment, not the service) | An organization that provides spectacles, contact lenses, and other vision enhancement devices prescribed by an optometrist or ophthalmologist. |
| 332S00000N | Suppliers; Hearing Aid Equipment | The manufacture and/or sale of electronic hearing aids, their component parts, and related products and services on a national basis. |
| 332U00000N | Suppliers; Home Delivered Meals | Home-delivered meals are those services or activities designed to prepare and deliver one or more meals a day to an individual's residence in order to prevent institutionalization, malnutrition, and feelings of isolation. Component services or activities may include the cost of personnel, equipment, and food; assessment of nutritional and dietary needs; nutritional education and counseling; socialization services; and information and referral. |
| 333600000N | Suppliers; Pharmacy | A facility used by pharmacists for the compounding and dispensing of medicinal preparations (drug store). A pharmacy is a facility whose primary function is to store, prepare and legally dispense prescription drugs through a licensed pharmacist. It meets any licensing or certification standards set forth by the jurisdiction where it is located. |
| 335E00000N | Suppliers; Prosthetic/Orthotic Supplier | An organization which supplies or vends orthopedic appliances or apparatuses and artificial body parts used to support, align, prevent, or correct deformities or to replace or improve function of body parts. |
| 335U00000N | Suppliers; Organ Procurement Organization | A federally designated organization that works with hospital personnel in retrieval of organs for transplantation. The federal government designates an OPO's service area and the hospitals with which an OPO is to establish working relationships. |
| 335V00000N | Suppliers; Portable X-Ray Supplier | A supplier of diagnostic x-ray services furnished in a place or residence used as the patient's home or, in certain circumstances, in an institution, where the institution cannot bill for the services. Portable x-ray services include: (1) skeletal films involving arms and legs, pelvis, vertebral column, and skull; (2) chest films which do not involve the use of contrast media (except routine screening procedures and tests in connection with routine physical examinations); and (3) abdominal films which do not involve the use of contrast media. Procedures and examinations which are excluded from portable x-ray services include the following: (1) procedures involving fluoroscopy;(2) procedures involving the use of contrast media; (3) procedures requiring the administration of a substance to the patient or injection of a substance into the patient and/or special manipulation of the patient; (4) procedures which require special medical skill or knowledge possessed by a doctor of medicine or doctor of osteopathy or which require that medical judgment be exercised; (5) procedures requiring special technical competency and/or special equipment or materials; (6) routine screening procedures; and (7) procedures which are not of a diagnostic nature. |