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Stay Up to Date With New COVID-19 ICD-10 Guidelines

Published on Wed May 06, 2020

Remember: Sequence U07.1 as primary diagnosis, with one exception. ICD-10-CM recently added a brand-new code for reporting confirmed cases of COVID-19, U07.1 (COVID-19). You also received numerous new COVID-19-related guidelines along with this code. These guidelines became effective on April 1, 2020. “The creation of an ICD-10 diagnosis code for COVID-19 was fast-tracked to fulfill the imperative need to track [...]
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