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CDC Announced Six New ICD-10-CM Codes for COVID-19 Related Conditions (Effective January 1, 2021)

NOTICE | JANUARY 7, 2021

As a result of the ongoing COVID-19 public health emergency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics (CDC/NCHS) is implementing additional codes into the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM)

New codes are as follows:

  1. Encounter for screening for COVID-19 (Z11.52)
  2. Contact with and (suspected) exposure to COVID-19 (Z20.822)
  3. Personal history of COVID-19 (Z86.16)
  4. Multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS (M35.81)
  5. Other specified systemic involvement of connective tissue (M35.89)
  6. Pneumonia due to coronavirus disease 2019 (J12.82)

Additional information about this ICD-10-CM coding guidance can be found here.