Agencies announce new ICD-10 codes for reporting COVID-19 therapeutics, vaccination status effective April 1
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will implement three new ICD-10 diagnosis codes for reporting COVID-19 vaccination status effective April 1, 2022. In addition, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will implement seven new ICD-10 procedure codes for COVID-19 therapeutics and vaccines effective April 1, 2022. For details, see the ICD-10 Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Groups version 39.1 zip file under Latest News. The ICD-10 MS-DRG V39.1 Grouper Software to accommodate these new diagnosis and procedure codes for discharges on or after April 1, 2022, can be found on the same CMS webpage.
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