Report COVID-19 with these Medical Codes

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Report COVID-19 with These Medical Codes www.outsourcestrategies.com 1-800-670-2809


With the coronavirus outbreak, hospitals in almost all countries including the U.S. are busy handling and treating infectious patients. The number of people infected by COVID-19 is increasing day by day in the United States. The latest report from Johns Hopkins University is that now there are 82,400 corona cases in the U.S and that makes it the country with the most infections in the world. Medical coding companies can assist hospitals in reporting this respiratory infection with appropriate diagnosis and procedure codes.

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ICD-10 CODES Emergency ICD-10 code U07.1

Confirmed cases of COVID-19 can be coded using B97.29 Other coronavirus as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere

Along with B97.29, use additional codes for diseases such as pneumonia J12.89 Other viral pneumonia A41.89 Other specified sepsis

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COVID-19 with SARS B97.21 SARS-associated coronavirus as the cause of diseases classified elsewhere

For a patient infected with any form of the virus, use Z20.828 Contact with and (suspected) exposure to other viral communicable diseases

ICD-11 code RA01.0


CPT Code Signs and symptoms of COVID-19 R05 Cough R06.02 Shortness of breath R50.9 Fever, unspecified

HCPCS Codes U0001 (to bill diagnostic testing performed by qualified laboratories using CDC-developed tests) U0002 (To bill for all non-CDC laboratory tests for COVID-19) www.outsourcestrategies.com 1-800-670-2809

87635 - Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid (DNA or RNA); severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (Coronavirus disease [COVID-19]), amplified probe technique.


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