tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2020 Issue Q2

ICD-10-CM: Hasten Your COVID-19 Dx Coding Know-How

Distinguish suspected versus positive cases. Because your surgeons may encounter and treat patients with COVID-19 symptoms or definitive diagnosis, you can’t afford to miss the recently issued diagnosis codes and extensive guidelines that will impact how you report claims. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics (CDC/NCHS) issued an unprecedented off-cycle addendum to the ICD-10-CM Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries. They followed up that addendum with an equally important update to the ICD-10-CM Official Coding and Reporting Guidelines. These sweeping updates allow for coders to begin reporting code U07.1 (COVID-19)...

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