HCPro, JustCoding Inpatient - 2022 Issue 3 (January)

Refine ICD-10-CM reporting for COVID-19 as a secondary diagnosis

January 18th, 2022

Susan Belley, M.Ed., RHIA, CPHQ, and Audrey Howard, RHIA, write that a majority of inpatients during this omicron surge are admitted for reasons other than COVID-19 and are incidentally found to be COVID-19-positive—making this an opportune time to review ICD-10-CM reporting for COVID-19 as a secondary diagnosis.

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