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ICD-10 Follies: Watch Where You're Walking

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It is before the move to ICD-10 becomes a must-do. Lest the deadline slip your mind, ľֱ is spotlighting some of those thousands of new codes that might just be getting a bit too granular.

Today's code:

: Walked into lamp post, subsequent encounter (There isn't a related code for injured while texting on phone, but it might come in a later version of ICD.)

Other "Follies"

Y92.253: Opera house as the place of occurrence of the external cause

X52: Prolonged stay in weightless environment

V98.2XXA: Accident to, on, or involving ice yacht, initial encounter

W30.3XXA: Contact with grain storage elevator, initial encounter

W21.04:

W56.21xD: Bitten by orca, subsequent encounter

Z62.891: Sibling rivalry

V97.33XD: Sucked into jet engine, subsequent encounter

W61.92: Struck by other birds

Z63.1: Problems in relationship with in-laws

W45.8XXA: Other foreign body or object entering through skin, initial encounter

V52.2XXA: Person on outside of pick-up truck or van injured in collision with two- or three-wheeled motor vehicle in nontraffic accident, initial encounter

V00.32: Snow-ski accident

X92.0: Assault by drowning and submersion while in bathtub

W00.1: Fall from stairs and steps due to ice and snow

To suggest a code for this list, email d.pittman@medpagetoday.com.