Hello!
It is necessary to make submissions for codes that aren’t represented currently in the database. Check out the Users’ Manual Copyright Notice and License Item 6 for the mention of interim X codes as a placeholder. Use the RELMA tool to make necessary submissions.
Out of curiosity, is your laboratory of a specialty nature? Are you using the LOINC codes provided by your referral laboratories? The nature of mapping only the in house codes, and basic chemistries, serologies, hematologies, etc. at the result level do not usually encounter the issue being described. Our experiences at 3M have found a higher level of completion at the result code level than the order code level. The recent guidelines created by the Standards & Interoperability Work Group aLOINC Order Code have helped, and communications with Regenstrief continues.
Have a great week, Pam Banning pdbanning@mmm.com