2021 ICD-10-CM
2021 ICD-10-CM
COVID-19 UPDATE
In response to the national emergency that was declared concerning the COVID-19 outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is implementing 6 new diagnosis codes into the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM), effective January 1, 2021.
The files in the Downloads section below contain information on the ICD-10-CM COVID-19 updates effective with discharges and patient encounters on and after January 1, 2021.
The 2021 ICD-10-CM files below contain information on the ICD-10-CM updates for FY 2021. These 2021 ICD-10-CM codes are to be used for discharges occurring from October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021 and for patient encounters occurring from October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.
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| There is no FY 2021 GEMs file. As stated in the FY 2016 IPPS/LTCH PPS final rule (80 FR 49388), the GEMs have been updated on an annual basis as part of the ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee meetings process and will continue to be updated for approximately 3 years after ICD-10 is implemented. |
We made the GEMs files available for FY 2016, FY 2017 and FY 2018.
An announcement was also made at the September 2017 ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting that FY 2018 would be the last GEMs file update.
Downloads
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2021 Coding Guidelines - Updated 12/16/2020 (PDF) -
2021 POA Exempt Codes - Updated 12/04/2020 (ZIP) -
2021 Code Descriptions in Tabular Order – Updated 12/16/2020 (ZIP) -
2021 Addendum – Updated 12/16/2020 (ZIP) -
2021 Code Tables, Tabular and Index – Updated 12/16/2020 (ZIP) -
2021 Conversion Table – Updated 12/16/2020 (ZIP)
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