Coding Long COVID – ICST

Coding Long COVID

Tutorial presented by Dr Anne Marie Cunningham, Associate Medical Director (Primary Care), Digital Health and Care Wales

In this tutorial, Anne Marie outlines why it’s important to code long COVID, what codes should be used and when to add/amend the code when the patient’s diagnosis changes from ‘Ongoing symptomatic COVID-19’ to ‘Post COVID syndrome’ according to the definition by NICE.

Coding long COVID

Coding Long COVID

Tutorial presented by Dr Anne Marie Cunningham, Associate Medical Director (Primary Care), Digital Health and Care Wales

In this tutorial, Anne Marie outlines why it’s important to code long COVID, what codes should be used and when to add/amend the code when the patient’s diagnosis changes from ‘Ongoing symptomatic COVID-19’ to ‘Post COVID syndrome’ according to the definition by NICE.

Coding long COVID

Mark as Understood

Resources

Coding Long COVID: Table of codes

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