Fact Sheet: ICD-10-CM Coding for Human Trafficking
Human trafficking is a public health concern many hospitals and health systems are combating every day. It is a crime, occurring when a trafficker exploits an individual with force, fraud or coercion to make them perform commercial work or sex.
In 2018, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention adopted new ICD codes to describe human trafficking (HT). These specific HT codes allow healthcare…
Hospitals and health systems every day see patients who are impacted by violence and human trafficking. Experts from CommonSpirit Health share their stories…
New Jersey-based Atlantic Health system transformed recognition and response processes to human trafficking, becoming a model of success and making its…
As part of the American Hospital Association’s Hospitals Against Violence initiative, the AHA, Jones Day and HEAL Trafficking have come together to provide…
Laura Castellanos, associate director at the American Hospital Association, discusses how to develop a human trafficking victim identification and response…