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Industry experts and coders alike will be pleased to see the inclusion of 69 new codes to further identify the stage of severity, as well as behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD).
 
These were included as part of the 1,176 new codes released June 10 with the FY2023 ICD-10 final code update. The code update also includes two hundred Tabular and Alpha Index changes. The CDC has also posted the FY2023 guidelines along with the code update. These changes will take effect Oct. 1.
 
 
Brain illness and injury, with a focus on dementia-related diagnoses, occupy a high volume of the 1,495 proposed changes to the ICD-10-CM code set announced today.
 
 
Starting April 1, you’ll have new ICD-10-CM Z codes to report if you find the patient you are treating is partially vaccinated or unvaccinated for COVID-19.
 
 
CMS is following through on a previous Biden executive order and will publish on Nov. 5 an interim final rule requiring all health care staff in facilities paid with federal funds -- that is, “approximately 76,000 providers" and "over 17 million health care workers across the country” -- to be vaccinated against COVID by Dec. 5, 2021.

 
 
The final 2022 Medicare physician fee schedule is out, and the terms are in: Medical practices will confront key updates to split/shared services, critical care episodes and billing privileges, as well as a cut to the conversion factor that trims it nearly 4%.
 

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