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New Diagnosis Codes to Debut for COVID-19, Social Determinates of Health

Published on Wed Aug 18, 2021

Plus: You’ll find revised code for Sjogren syndrome with keratoconjunctivitis. If your patients are having residual symptoms from dealing with “long COVID,” you’ll soon have a new way to report this condition. Here’s why: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released 191 new codes that will join the ICD-10-CM code set beginning on Oct. 1, 2021 — [...]
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