More than a dozen academic, public health, and healthcare partners formed a coalition with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to launch Project Firstline.
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Healthcare organizations unite to provide COVID-19 training
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More than a dozen academic, public health, and healthcare partners formed a coalition with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to launch Project Firstline, a national training collaborative to help healthcare workers respond to COVID-19 infection control practices.
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Prior to fiscal year (FY) 2021, an Excludes1 note under ICD-10-CM code subcategory G93.4- (other and unspecified encephalopathy) prevented the assignment of a code from subcategory G93.4- when a patient also had a diagnosis of toxic encephalopathy (reported with ICD-10-CM code G92). 

This Excludes1 note has been changed to an Excludes2 note for FY 2021. This means coders can now report both toxic encephalopathy and metabolic encephalopathy.
 

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The governor of a state that is considered to be an epicenter for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) makes a national appeal to physicians and nurses to assist his state during the pandemic. His state has almost 70,000 cases, and half of these cases are in one major city.
 

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