Emergency use ICD codes for COVID-19 disease outbreak
Date Posted: Monday,
March 23, 2020
The COVID-19 disease outbreak has been declared a public health emergency of international concern.
An emergency ICD-10 code of U07.1 is assigned to a disease diagnosis of COVID-19 confirmed by laboratory testing.
An emergency ICD-10 code of U07.2 is assigned to a clinical or epidemiological diagnosis of COVID-19 where laboratory confirmation is inconclusive or not available.
The title of U07 will be changed back to ‘codes for emergency use'
In ICD-11, the code for the confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 is RA01.0 and the code for the clinical diagnosis (suspected or probable) of COVID-19 is RA01.2.
Source: Who