National HIV Testing Day is June 27.
Wednesday is National HIV Testing Day—a day designated to highlight the importance of testing in detecting, treating, and preventing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
This special day is designed to encourage people to get tested for HIV, know their status, and get linked to care and treatment if they have HIV. This year’s theme, Doing It My Way, Testing for HIV, reminds us that each person has his or her own reasons why they test for HIV, and their own unique ways of doing so.
About 1.1 million people in the United States have HIV, and one in seven of them don’t know it. Many people have HIV for years before they get a diagnosis. For those living with undiagnosed HIV, testing is the first step in maintaining a healthy life and reducing HIV transmission. Thus, awareness of HIV infection through HIV testing is the first step to social services that improve life quality and length of survival.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend to healthcare providers that they:
You can locate a HIV testing center near you by using this CDC link: https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/library/awareness/testingday.html.
Simply enter your ZIP code or city and it will direct you to a testing center near you. In addition, the CDC’s guidelines for HIV testing of serum and plasma specimens are available online at https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/guidelines/testing.html.
Clinical coding of HIV in ICD-10-CM brings you to Chapter 1 for Certain Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, code range A00-B99, and then to the three-character code B20, Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
When coding, be sure to note the includes:
Type 1 excludes:
Additional instructional notes at the B20 code level are:
Also, check out ICD-10-CM code Z11.4, Encounter for screening for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Remember that “screening” is the testing for a disease or disease precursors in asymptomatic individuals so that early detection and treatment can be provided to those who test positive for the disease.
With national awareness of HIV testing being promoted this week, it’s a great time for coding and CDI professionals to review the coding of HIV.
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