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Use This Code for Long COVID

Published on Mon Jul 18, 2022

Question: Which ICD-10 code(s) do I use to describe a patient who has “long COVID”? Florida Subscriber Answer: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released an update with coding advice for documenting a long COVID diagnosis. The CDC says: For an unspecified post-COVID-19 condition like long COVID, use code U09.9 (Post COVID-19 condition, unspecified). Add other codes for conditions [...]
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