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Ignore ‘High-Risk’ for ICD-10 Coding COVID-19 Testing

Published on Tue Oct 06, 2020

Question: We saw a patient for a cough, and the ED physician wanted the patient to get tested for COVID-19. The note hypertension, palpitations and obesity.” Which ICD-10 code should we report to reflect the patient’s high-risk nature? The only high-risk diagnosis code I can find in ICD-10 is Z91.89 (Other specified personal risk factors, not elsewhere classified). Virginia Subscriber [...]
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