AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS - 2020 Issue 1; Notice
ICD-10-CM Official Coding Guidelines - Supplement Coding Encounters Related to COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak Effective: February 20, 2020
This following guidance is posted on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics website: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/icd/ICD-10-CM-Official-Coding-Gudance-Interim-Advice-coronavirus-feb-20-2020.pdf Introduction The purpose of this document is to provide official diagnosis coding guidance for health care encounters and deaths related to the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) previously named 2019-nCoV. The COVID-19 caused an outbreak of respiratory illness, and was first identified in 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. Since then, thousands of cases have been confirmed in China, and COVID-19 has also spread internationally, including in the United States. Investigations are ongoing. The most recent...
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