New hospital billing codes log COVID-19 vaccination compliance status for government use

International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes are being used to record the COVID-19 vaccination and compliance status of American citizens, where they remain available for use by government agencies and insurers, Dr. Robert Malone revealed last week.

The purpose of ICD codes, which were initiated and are managed by the World Health Organization (WHO), is to make the health status of individuals available to authorities and insurance programs. 

For example, a clinician might enter a patient as “4B4Z,” an ICD code which means the patient has an unspecified autoimmune disease. Someone who has a heart attack would be logged as BA41.Z for acute myocardial infarction. A patient who suffers a cerebral ischemic stroke would be tagged with the ICD-11 code 8B11.5Z. 

Since the Affordable Care Act — i.e. “Obamacare” — was passed in 2012, these codes are integrated with digital health records throughout the United States.

This is how the CDC, the FDA and the WHO can publish statistics and what they claim to be research, because the agencies collect the ICD codes from hospitals and clinics around the country. They are also intended to be used, according to the WHO, for healthcare “payment systems”.

Last year, the CDC updated the codes so that they now include ones for those who are “underimmunized” for COVID-19. Someone who has not been injected with the COVID-19 shots, for example, will receive the code Z28.310. Someone who has been partially vaccinated will be tagged as Z28.311.

Other immunization codes implemented by the CDC last year tell authorities whether an individual was non-compliant and why. ICD code Z28.2-, for example, indicates an “immunization not carried out because of patient decision for other and unspecified reason,” and Z28.1 indicates an “immunization not carried out because of patient decision for reasons of belief or group pressure”.

Yet another code indicates an “[e]ncounter for immunization safety counseling,” such as if the individual underwent “counseling” for their refusal to be vaccinated. This is a billable code, so clinicians and hospitals can be paid for these “counseling” sessions, which Dr. Malone likens to “re-education”.

These codes, adds Dr. Malone, can also be accessed by private insurance companies and used for vaccine passports.

Once a person’s vaccination status is coded and uploaded into large data base, it can be accessed by government and private health insurers alike. The administrative state officers at the CDC have not made immunization status a reportable disease (yet) but immunization status is listed as one of the reasons for mandatory reporting. They are just one step away from being able to collect this information without your permission. Ergo: vaccine passports made easy.

And while the Privacy Act of 1974 dictates that one’s immunization status is not to be shared, that law was openly flouted when schools, employers, places of business and the government required proof of vaccinations status.