As the coronavirus international spread increases, CMS and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are helping you get ready for cases at your practice with new HCPCS and ICD-10-CM specific codes.
To help prepare providers, labs, and facilities to respond to the threat of the 2019-Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), CMS and the CDC created specific methods to track the lab test and confirmed diagnosis. Here are the new codes that you should add to your superbill and claims.
Report Coronavirus Test Panel with HCPCS Code U0001
CMS developed a new HCPCS code for providers and laboratories to test patients for SARS-CoV-2. Using the new code allows you to bill for the specific test instead of using an unspecified code, which means better tracking of the infectious disease. If you test patients for Coronavirus using the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Test Panel, you should bill for that test using the newly created HCPCS code (U0001). Medicare claims processing system will be able to accept this code on April 1, 2020 for dates of service on or after February 4, 2020.
Bill Diagnosis With ICD-10-CM U07.1 Coronavirus Code
The CDC adopted the World Health Organization’s emergency creation of an ICD-10 code for confirmed diagnoses of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). As the ICD-10-CM code, you should now use U07.1 ( 2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease). This code will be included in ICD-10-CM 2020.
Read more from the agencies including:
- CMS: https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/public-health-news-alert-cms-develops-new-code-coronavirus-lab-test
- CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/icd/Announcement-New-ICD-code-for-coronavirus-2-20-2020.pdf
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