This post is not risk adjustment related but a reference new codes for COVID-19:
The topic is
"Special Announcements for the ICD-10-CM Coronavirus (COVID-19) & Vaping Coding"
*Various codes from COVID-19
*New ICD-10-CM Code 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)
*New ICD-10-CMD code for vaping
*Vaping Coding Guidance 2019
[https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd/icd10cm.htm
CDC > NCHS > Classification of Diseases, Functioning and Disability
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 to include:
• Encounter for screening for COVID-19 (Z11.52)
• Contact with and (suspected) exposure to COVID-19 (Z20.822)
• Personal history of COVID-19 (Z86.16)
• Multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS) (M35.81)
• Other specified systemic involvement of connective tissue (M35.89)
• Pneumonia due to coronavirus disease 2019 (J12.82)
These new codes will be effective January 1, 2021
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