I’m taking a class on Medical Coding right now. I’m still only in the second week of the class, so I could be interpreting this wrong, but it looks like there is one single code for identifying covid cases. With most conditions, there are many different codes for the different types, severities, complications, etc. But for covid it all gets lumped into one single code.
*If* I’m interpreting that right, it could explain why everyone who tests positive and then dies is getting counted as a covid death. But keep in mind, that’s a big “if”.
Wrong. there are a myriad of ICD 10 codes for covid and the list gets longer daily