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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

ICD - ICD-10-CM - International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (cdc.gov)

[https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd/icd10cm.htm

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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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