Medical Economics October 22, 2020
What physicians need to know about coding in 2021
For 2021, there are 490 new, 47 revised and 58 deleted ICD-10-CM codes. We will cover the ICD-10-CM guidelines in this article and the ICD-10-CM code changes next month. There are several important changes to the guidelines, including those relating to COVID-19 coding. The updates for these were a little late this year due to COVID-19.
The guideline below is important in how we report codes for social determinants of health.
I.B.14 For social determinants of health: Patient self-reported documentation may also be used to assign codes for social determinants of health, as long as the patient self-reported information is...
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