New ICD-10-CM code for the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), April 1, 2020

Effective: March 18, 2020 On March 11, 2020 the Novel Coronavirus Disease, COVID-19, was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization.

On March 13, 2020 a national emergency was declared in the United States concerning the COVID-19 Outbreak.

Given these developments, and the urgent need to capture the reporting of this condition in our nation’s claims and surveillance data, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), under the National Emergencies Act Section 201 and 301, is announcing a change in the effective date of

new diagnosis code

from October 1, 2020 to April 1, 2020.

This off-cycle update is unprecedented and is an exception to the code set updating process established under HIPAA.

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