As a result of the ongoing COVID-19 public health emergency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics (CDC/NCHS) is implementing additional codes into the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) for reporting.
These new codes identify conditions resulting from COVID-19 and are now available in Axxess Home Health:
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Encounter for screening for COVID-19 (Z11.52) |
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Contact with and (suspected) exposure to COVID-19 (Z20.822) |
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Personal history of COVID-19 (Z86.16) |
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Multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS) (M35.81) |
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Other specified systemic involvement of connective tissue (M35.89) |
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Pneumonia due to coronavirus disease 2019 (J12.82) |
ICD-10-CM interim coding guidance can be found here. For additional information on COVID-19, visit the CDC and WHO websites.
Updated on 01/06/2021
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