American Hospital Association October 7, 2021
Health care providers used Z codes to capture standardized data on social determinants of health for 525,987 Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries in 2019, according to a new report by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. That’s only 1.6% of Medicare FFS beneficiaries, but 6.2% more than in 2018 and 17.9% more than in 2016, when the codes became available to document SDOHs as part of the new ICD-10-CM coding system for health care claims, the report notes.
The most used Z codes were...
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