tci Part B Insider - 2020 Issue Q2

ICD-10-CM Coding: Get the Scoop on ICD-10 Options for COVID-19 Diagnoses

Tip: Use date of service to determine code selection. Accuracy is key when you’re searching for the correct code to report a COVID-19-related diagnosis. Though rules continue to evolve during this crisis, you shouldn’t have a problem reporting the right ICD-10 codes — and getting paid for them — as long as you have the correct dates of service. Here’s why: Although practices had been using B97.29 (Other coronavirus as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere) when seeing COVID-19 patients, the ICD-10-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee decided on an emergency insertion of a new, more...

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