Interesting codes found in ICD-10 and a quick way to code using ICD 9 as a basis. Codes presented are real but presented to simply relax health professionals as they tackle this subject.

1. ICD 10 CODES
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2. Apologies
ICD 10 is a serious matter; yet, we all deserve
some time to relax, so while our team didn’t
create the pictures you are about to see we
believe that there is an instructional value in
these.

3. Knitting accident: E012.0

4. Battered
by child:
E96.794

5. Very Low Level of
Personal Hygiene:
R46.0

6. Grandma
got run
over by a
reindeer:
V06.00xA

7. Problems in
relationship
with in laws:
Z63.1

8. Uncongenial
work
environment:
Z63.1

9. Crushed by Alligator: W5803XA

10. Other headache syndrome: G44.89

11. Ironing
Accident:
Y93.E4

12. Murdered Snowman: Y02.8xxA

13. Fall while
being
carried by
other
person:
W04

14. Fell from a reindeer-pulled sleigh: V80.929A

15. SPACECRAFT COLLISSION
INJURING OCCUPANT:
V95.43

16. Fell asleep in
tanning bed:
W89.9xxA

17. Bitten by turtle….…twice: W59.21XD

19. Struck by
duck:
W61.62

20. Afraid of the Easter Bunny: F40.218

21. Walked into a lamppost: W22.02XA

22. Struck by orca, initial encounter: W56.22xA

23. Holiday exhaustion: T73.3xxS

24. Good News
• Don’t Panic and follow these steps as you go into ICD
10:
– Type the ICD-9 code you’d normally use into a conversion
tool to get an ICD-10 code to use as a starting point.
– Review the Tabular List to determine if there are codes
with greater levels of specificity available.
• Please pay attention to chapter and category headings for
additional coding instructions.
– If you can, code for the actual condition (e.g., patellar
tendinitis) instead of the result (e.g., knee pain).
Note: at this point in time CMS has indicated that we do not
have to use external cause code, chapter 20, so relax.

25. Summary
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