I see Covid has fallen off the radar in the Sunday talk shows and we will hear all the guests covering again for Biden. I will watch as many as I can today to see what the spin is.
My husband recently had a medical appt with a new doctor. The doctor was young and very “woke”. He came in wearing a mask. He spent a lot of time discussing Covid vaccines and the need for them. When my husband asked why the push for this vaccine, he was told it has to be entered per Medicare/ Medicaid new coding guidelines. My husband did not answer the question as he said it was not relevant to why he was there.
The ICD system grew into an electronic data-mining opportunity with the passage by Congress of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) in 2012. The digitization of healthcare records was fully implemented with the upgrade to ICD-10 after two congressional delays in 2016.
The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) announced a new code which was rolled out in October 2022 and became available to nearly every medical clinic and hospital in January 2023.
The new code is Code Number Z28.310. This is the code for a odd “diagnosis” since it’s not a diagnosis at all. This is the code your doctor will log into the computer system that is accessed by government and private health insurers informing them of your Covid vaccine status.
With Covid, they added the 1 after the 3 (Z28.31), so Covid is the only vaccine they’re specific for. Then they added a second digi, t if you’re partially vaccinated and didn’t get any of the boosters.
If diagnostics aren’t entered properly, a doctor may not get reimbursed. Now that this new code is officially required by government and private insurance providers, will doctors likely be “incentivized” to ask about your vax status?
Article below was interesting to me as I called the billing rep for the medical facility that my husband attended. I asked them about the new code. They said they had just received notice of it at their facility.
Excellent link and discussion. Looks like the obama govt. wants more and more info on us.They gotta see who is not jabbed yet so they can up the death count and get more money for the soros types.
Similar experience with provider here in Fla,
Its all about the Benjamins
Ok the z codes have no payment tied to them. They are just diagnoses codes.