Description: Coding Clinic Advisor offers ICD-10 and HCPCS coding resources, including the ability to submit questions for free and purchase subscriptions, webinars, publications, and quizzes. The American Hospital Association's Central Office serves as the official U.S. Clearinghouse on medical coding for the proper use of ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS coding systems and Level I HCPCS (CPT-4 codes) for hospital providers and certain Level II HCPCS codes for hospitals, physicians and other health professionals.
The following questions and answers were jointly developed and approved by the American Hospital Association’s Central Office on ICD-10-CM/PCS and the American Health Information Management Association. Revised May 9, 2023.
Nelly Leon-Chisen, RHIA, and Director, Coding and Classification & Executive Editor for AHA Coding Clinic was featured in an article by The Rural Monitor: The Codes of Care: How Words and Numbers Have Transformative Power for Rural Healthcare.
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.