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Stay on Top of COVID-19 Code Changes

Published on Fri Apr 17, 2020

Question: What is the current guidance on coding a COVID-19 infection? Washington, D.C. Subscriber Answer: Updates have been swift in the face of COVID-19, and there is now a dedicated ICD-10 code for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19; this is updated information from the previous issue of Practice Management Alert. As of April 1, use ICD-10 code U07.1 (2019-ncov [...]
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