COVID-19 EDI Reporting

The Workers' Compensation Insurance Organizations (WCIO) has approved the addition of a new Cause Code of 83 for Pandemic and a new Nature Code of 83 for COVID-19. Pennsylvania's system has been updated to accept these codes for reporting COVID-19 claims. The codes are anticipated to be used for the reporting for any COVID-19 claim effective December 2019 or later. The International Association of Industrial Accidents, Boards and Commissions (IAIABC) recommends that EDI reporting and collection systems be modified to recognize these new codes by April 1, 2020. However, until you are able to update your system to use these codes, we ask that you use Type of Loss field DN0290 as Occupational Disease, and list COVID-19 in the Accident/Injury Description Narrative DN0038 so we can easily identify these claims.

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