Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Note:
HH Grouper Loads New Vaping Diagnosis Code
Published on Fri Feb 14, 2020
The Home Health Grouper will accept a new diagnosis code related to vaping starting April 1. “The new version includes the diagnosis code (U07.0) recently created for vaping related disorder,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicare says at www.cms.gov/files/document/mm11656.pdf.
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