# Health and Human Services requirement for reporting race and ethnicity

**URL:** <https://forum.loinc.org/t/health-and-human-services-requirement-for-reporting-race-and-ethnicity/1060>\
**Category:** general-discussion\
**Created:** [August 10, 2020, 12:39pm UTC](https://forum.loinc.org/t/health-and-human-services-requirement-for-reporting-race-and-ethnicity/1060 "2020-08-10T12:39:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![bhemelgarn](https://forum.loinc.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@bhemelgarn](https://forum.loinc.org/u/bhemelgarn)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 12:39pm UTC](https://forum.loinc.org/t/health-and-human-services-requirement-for-reporting-race-and-ethnicity/1060/1 "2020-08-10T12:39:25Z")

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Hello,

Health and Human Services is now requiring race and ethnicity to be reported with SARS-CoV-2 results. I am wondering what LOINC codes others are using for this requirement?

Thanks,

Brittany

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**Author:** ![pdbanning](https://forum.loinc.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/9f8e36/32.png) [@pdbanning](https://forum.loinc.org/u/pdbanning)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 2:01pm UTC](https://forum.loinc.org/t/health-and-human-services-requirement-for-reporting-race-and-ethnicity/1060/2 "2020-08-10T14:01:54Z")

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Hi Brittany, The following information was provided by the FDA’s SHIELD team call recently. [https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/hhs-guidance-implementation.pdf](https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/hhs-guidance-implementation.pdf)

Hope this helps,

Pam  
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**Author:** ![bhemelgarn](https://forum.loinc.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@bhemelgarn](https://forum.loinc.org/u/bhemelgarn)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.loinc.org/t/health-and-human-services-requirement-for-reporting-race-and-ethnicity/1060/3 "2020-08-10T15:05:06Z")

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Thanks Pam!

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**Author:** ![system](https://forum.loinc.org/uploads/default/original/1X/dbab97ce9b2987d788a376e254fcaae249f3b672.png) [@system](https://forum.loinc.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2023, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.loinc.org/t/health-and-human-services-requirement-for-reporting-race-and-ethnicity/1060/4 "2023-06-23T15:36:45Z")

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