Archive for the Week of July 27, 2020
Archive for the Week of July 27, 2020
Welcome to the medical billing blog archive for the week of July 27, 2020.
Here you will find links to every article added to the Outsource Management Group web site during the week of July 27, 2020.
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ICD Code Classifications for COVID-19
At the time I am writing this article, the U.S. has confirmed over 4.2 million cases of COVID-19 and 144,000 deaths nationwide, and as the threat of Coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to seemingly increase daily, The World Health Organization had to develop codes for classification of Covid-19 cases. The World Health Organization Family of International Classifications (WHOFIC) Network Classification and Statistics Advisory Committee (CSAC) had an emergency meeting on 31st of January 2020 to discuss the creation of a specific code for the new coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19). World Health Organization (WHO) has established a new International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) emergency code (U07.1, 2019-nCov acute respiratory disease). The virus …
