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The outbreak of COVID-19 led to many unprecedented changes for the healthcare industry. Review this collection of latest COVID-19 news, coding guidelines, and other resources to ensure your coding team stays compliant.
The Refresh With YES: COVID-19 ICD-10 Coding Learning Path gives coders the updated COVID-19 ICD-10-CM/PCS coding guidelines and advice. The ICD-10-CM course covers the FY 2021 COVID-19 coding updates, as well as the diagnosis coding issues for COVID-19.
The Refresh With YES: ICD-10-PCS Root Operations β Debridement, Destruction, Extraction Learning Path provides an overview of how to code PCS root operations, such as excision, extraction, and debridement, divided into 14-20-minute webinars.
The American Medical Association (AMA) announced 2021 CPT code set changes, with the organization stating 329 editorial changes, 206 new codes, 54 deletions, and 69 revisions (AMA, 2020). Many of the editorial changes are the result of the 2021 E/M office visit code revisions.
The Final Rule for the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) for calendar year 2021 was published in the Federal Register on December 29, 2020 (Federal Register, 2020). A synopsis was featured in an earlier article, β2021 Outpatient Prospective Payment System Final Rule: See the Updates.β
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