Today, UCB issued the following statement jointly from Camille Lee, Head of U.S. Immunology, and Jeff Stark, M.D., Head of U.S. Medical Immunology, on the recent update by the ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee (a subcommittee of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) to endorse and make public that non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (nr-axSpA) will be formally indexed to ICD-10 sub category M46.8; these changes will be effective for diagnoses starting October 1, 2020 and more information is available on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS) website which outlines the specific coding changes in greater detail: