Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Note:
No Joke: CDC Makes 'Unprecedented' Move To Activate New COVID-19 Diagnosis Code April 1
Published on Fri Mar 27, 2020
If you are treating patients for COVID-19, there’s a new diagnosis code to use as of April 1: U07.1 (2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that it moved up the effective date of the new diagnosis code from Oct.1. “This off-cycle update is unprecedented and is an exception to the code set updating process established under HIPAA,” stresses the CDC in a release.
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