New ICD-10-CM Code for the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)

As a result of the ongoing COVID-19 public health emergency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics (CDC/NCHS) is implementing additional codes into the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) for reporting to include:

• Encounter for screening for COVID-19 (Z11.52)
• Contact with and (suspected) exposure to COVID-19 (Z20.822)
• Personal history of COVID-19 (Z86.16) • Multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS) (M35.81)
• Other specified systemic involvement of connective tissue (M35.89)
• Pneumonia due to coronavirus disease 2019 (J12.82)

These new codes will be effective January 1, 2021 to identify conditions resulting from COVID-19. Full addenda information regarding the new codes and the final code titles will be published shortly.

ICD-10-CM interim coding guidance can be found at https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd/icd10cm.htm.

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/icd/Announcement-New-ICD-code-for-coronavirus-19-508.pdf