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/
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.