Plans Seek Ways to Promote Provider Use of Z Codes
As Medicare and Medicaid plans seek ways to improve overall care quality by addressing members’ social determinants of health, an emerging source of beneficiary-level SDOH data is a subset of ICD-10 “Z Codes,” which can be attached to claims and encounters to identify causes other than a disease or injury. While there is payer enthusiasm for using these codes, new research suggests that plans have a long way to go to increase provider uptake and establish best practices in this area.
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