If you have seen a health care professional for anything since April 1, 2022, you have been Covid Vaccination code labeled.
A little bit about the coding system in general: The United States healthcare industry first adopted the World Health Organization's ICD medical coding system in 1979.
It was deemed important because it provided a common language for recording, reporting and monitoring diseases. It also allowed the comparing and sharing of data in a consistent and standard way – between hospitals, regions and countries and over periods of time.
In other words, health care providers are ORDERED to use it to categorize different kinds of patients. The ICD-10 codes are preserved in a patient’s electronic health record and used by insurance companies for billing purposes. The CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics maintains the codes. Within the ICD codes, there is a category known as “ICD-10-CM” codes (which are reportedly used by the CDC for tracking purposes), and this “CM” category includes the new “Unvaccinated for COVID-19” category and also the “Partially Vaccinated For COVID-19” category and the “other underimmunization status” category.
https://www.aapc.com/blog/82697-reporting-covid-19-vaccination-status-in-2022/
I have been to the doctors with my family countless times since this thing started, even for hospital admissions, and no one ever asked for their vaccine status🤷🏻♀️
Interesting. I have experienced the opposite except for 1 provider, my dentist.
What point is this making? I’m not being aggressive or mean, but I can look at any patients vaccination record at any time in the er. We give, literally less than 0 shits about anyones vaccinations for anything, unless it’s tetanus.
My point IS, Doctor ?, I am specifically talking about the CoVID vaccination, and I have been asked by all health care providers (except my dentist) during any health care visit the following question- "ARE YOU VACCINATED AGAINST COVID?"... and Doctor?, being a retired nurse, I COMPLETELY understand why you don't give a shi* about questioning an ER patient about it.
The only thing I’m surprised by is that it didn’t get a code long before this. I know plenty of medical providers outside the er. None of them ask, none of them care, no one who isn’t a big fucking dork does. Literally just lie to them as others have suggested. Dunno what else to tell ya. Godspeed, nurse
Godspeed to you as well, Doctor. Perhaps the vaccine questioning depends on geographical location.
Yes, just because a code is available for use doesn't mean it is used. I've never used it but I don't code doctor visits. I do code observation visits to the hospital. We don't use that code and haven't been asked to.
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Well I’m just going to lie then. Kinda like when my Doc asked if I had any guns in the house - nope I lost all of them in a fishing accident last year☘️😂🤣😂
I lied to a lab for testing and one lie led to many more, i.e. what month and year did you get it, which arm did you get it in. I did use "can't remember" on the exact timing.
Ha! A friend of mine lies, too, but what do you do if they start asking for proof?
Leave.😤
How should a patient answer the question?
I've been telling the truth, answering with one word, "No."
This is a misleading. The Coding Guidelines use the terminology "MAY" meaning it is not mandatory and certainly is not a "surveillance program". Oh BTW I apply ICD 10 codes and review approximately 15-20 in-patient H & P (history and physical) a day, for the last 10 years and I have yet to see these codes in any hospital or office documentation and mostly I do not even see vaccination status documented. So, BREATHE. Like most things, they must be "complied" with and healthcare is not the most compliant industry out there. I actually suspect the AMA has now suggested "Don't ask Don't tell" lol
Chapter 1: Certain Infectious and Parasitic Diseases
(n) Under immunization for COVID-19 Status Code Z18.310, Unvaccinated for COVID-19, may be assigned when the patient has not received at least one dose of any COVID-19 vaccine. Code Z28.311, Partially vaccinated for COVID-19, may be assigned when the patient has received at least one dose of a multi-dose COVID-19 vaccine regimen, but has not received the full set of doses necessary to meet the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) definition of “fully vaccinated” in place at the time of the encounter. (pg31/115 of ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting FY 2022-Updated April 1, 2022)
When new codes are implemented, the word "may" is meaningless. It's fair to say that the word is never seen, heard, or discussed in your average doctor's office. You're either told to do something or not. The staff is either told (or not told) to ask every patient about vaccination status. If they don't ask, insurance company audits will come down hard with warnings and penalties.
Jokes on them, I am my own doctor now.
I have seen several doctors as part of my annual physcial, etc. and not one asked me about my vax status?
I don’t know even one single medical provider who cares, nor any who would waste the breath and time it takes to ask.
Z28.310 Unvaccinated for COVID-19 https://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/Z00-Z99/Z20-Z29/Z28-/Z28.310
Z28.311 Partially vaccinated for COVID-19 https://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/Z00-Z99/Z20-Z29/Z28-/Z28.311
Immunization not carried out and underimmunization status Z28- https://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/Z00-Z99/Z20-Z29/Z28-