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  • The 3rd quarter newsletter for Coding Clinic for ICD-10-CM/PCS was released August 1!  Our latest blog post offers a preview. 

    (8/1/2024)

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  • Join us August 29 for our Overview of the Final IPPS Rule (FY) 2025 webinar! 

    (7/8/2024)

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  • The 2nd quarter newsletter for Coding Clinic for HCPCS was released June 14! Curious about it's contents? Our latest blog post offers a preview. 

    (6/14/2024)

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  • The 2nd quarter newsletter for Coding Clinic for ICD-10-CM/PCS was released June 1! Curious about it's contents? Our latest blog post offers a preview. 

    (5/31/2024)

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  • Learn about how to code mental disorders in our latest blog post. 

    (5/10/2024)

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  • Check out the highlights from our Q1 2024 Coding Clinic releases on our new blog!   

    (3/28/2024)

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  • Registration for Overview of Proposed IPPS Rule (FY) 2025 Webinar is now open! Please visit the webinar page for more information!  

    (3/28/2024)

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  • The AHA Central Office is now on Facebook! Follow us now! 

    (3/28/2024)

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  • Registration for Overview of Proposed IPPS Rule (FY) 2025 Webinar is Now Open! Please visit the webinar page for more information! 

    (3/1/2024)

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  • The 2024 Coding Clinic newsletters are available for purchase! If you have an active Coding Clinic subscription, renew now to maintain access to your current library. 

    (11/1/2023)

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  • Join us August 30 for the FY 2024 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Final Rule Webinar! Please visit the webinar page for more information! 

    (7/25/2023)

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  • Registration for FY 2024 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Proposed Rule Webinar is Now Open! Please visit the webinar page for more information! 

    (4/19/2023)

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  • We are now accepting registrations for our FY 2023 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Final Rule scheduled November 8th! Please visit the Webinars page for more information! 

    (11/8/2022)

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  • We are now accepting registrations for the Understanding the Who, What, Why, Where and When of Applying ICD-10-CM Codes for Social Determinants of Health Coding, scheduled for October 18th! Please visit the Webinars page for more information! 

    (9/15/2022)

Announcement

  • The Frequently Asked Questions Regarding ICD-10-CM/PCS Coding for COVID-19 have been revised as of April 13, 2022 can be found here.

    (4/13/2022)

Announcement

  • In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is implementing 2 new procedure codes, in addition to the 7 new procedure codes previously announced, bringing the total to 9 new procedure codes, to describe the introduction or infusion of therapeutics, including vaccines for COVID-19 treatment, into the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-PCS), effective April 1, 2022.

    Additional files containing information related to these 2 procedure codes is located in the Downloads section labeled as ERRATA on the CMS website: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/icd-10/2022-icd-10-pcs.

    (1/13/2022)

Announcement

  • The AHA has posted updated guidance to help hospitals and clinicians use ICD-10-CM “Z codes” to capture data on the social needs of patient populations, including non-medical factors that may influence a patient’s health status. For more information on using Z codes for social needs, visit AHA’s website.

    (1/6/2022)

Announcement

  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will implement three new ICD-10 diagnosis codes for reporting COVID-19 vaccination status effective April 1, 2022. In addition, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will implement seven new ICD-10 procedure codes for COVID-19 therapeutics and vaccines effective April 1, 2022. For details, see the ICD-10 Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Groups version 39.1 zip file under Latest News. The ICD-10 MS-DRG V39.1 Grouper Software to accommodate these new diagnosis and procedure codes for discharges on or after April 1, 2022, can be found on the same CMS webpage. 

    (11/16/2021)

Announcement

  • Revised FAQ's for ICD-10-CM/PCS for COVID-19 can be found here.

    (8/25/2021)

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Announcement

  • FY 2022 ICD-10-CM CODE FILES

    The FY 2022 ICD-10-CM files have posted at https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd/icd10cm.htm.  The 2022 ICD-10-CM codes are to be used from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022.  This replaces the FY 2021 – January release.  The FY 2022 ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting will be posted at a later date.

    (6/23/2021)

Announcement

Announcement

  • The updated ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting ICD-10-CM guidelines (with the new codes effective January 1, 2021) are now visible on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services webpage. The update includes the new COVID-19 related codes effective January 1, 2021. The 2021 addendum, 2021 updated code files and 2021 conversion table are also posted on the same webpage.

    (12/16/2020)

Announcement

  • The CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics has posted the January 1, 2021 release of the ICD-10-CM at https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd/icd10cm.htm. The update found under “2021 release of ICD-10-CM includes new COVID-19 related codes as well as the Present on Admission (POA) Exempt codes for fiscal year 2021.

    (12/4/2020)

Announcement

  • New ICD-10 codes for COVID-19 on Jan. 1. Six new ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes have been announced for reporting conditions related to COVID-19 effective Jan. 1, 2021. The codes are for pneumonia due to COVID-19; multisystem inflammatory syndrome; other systemic involvement of connective tissue; COVID-19 screening; suspected exposure to COVID-19; and personal history of COVID-19. CMS also is implementing 21 new ICD-10 procedure codes for COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics, including monoclonal antibodies. For details, see the latest news on the CMS MS-DRG webpage.

    (11/30/2020)

Breaking News

  • BREAKING NEWS

    The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the addition to the ICD-10-PCS code set 12 new codes that will help identify treatments for COVID-19 effective August 1, 2020.  Among the new codes are Section X New Technology codes for the introduction or infusion of therapeutics including Remdesivir and convalescent plasma, as well as any future new therapeutic substance for the treatment of COVID-19 that does not have a unique name. Concurrently, CMS also released the new ICD-10 MS-DRGs Grouper software package to accommodate these new codes, Version 37.2 effective August 1, 2020.  The new codes will not affect the MS-DRG assignment. Detailed information is found here.

    Separately, the frequently asked questions on COVID-19 jointly developed and approved by the American Hospital Association’s Central Office on ICD-10-CM/PCS and the American Health Information Management Association were recently updated to include questions related to post COVID-19 manifestations, post acute care encounters and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) due to COVID-19.

    (7/30/2020)

Announcement

  • The FY 2021 ICD-10-CM Official Coding Guidelines are available for download on the CDC’s website.

     

    (7/7/2020)