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ATS Issues COVID-19 Specific Coding and Billing Guidance for Physicians

This week, the ATS issued a COVID-19 specific issue of the ATS Coding and Billing Quarterly, providing updates on CMS’s evolving coverage and payment policies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The issue covers:

  • ICD-10-CM coding for COVID-19
  • CMS telemedicine rules in COVID public health emergency
  • A review of sample scenarios of outpatient, inpatient and ICU services under revised CMS policy
  • COVID-19 specific Q&As

If you have coding or billing questions related to pulmonary, critical care or sleep medicine, please feel free to contact the ATS at codingquestions@thoracic.org. 

Last Reviewed: April 2020