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LADY GAGA, IS THAT YOU? WE LOVE YOUR MEAT SUIT.īut seriously, who gets to decide what constitutes "bizarre personal appearance"? Let the people do what they want!ĭid we miss one? Tweet us your favorite bizarre code at And check out our ICD-10 coverage. The macaw needs to be found and treated immediately. Consider calling the SPCA and/or the police. Macaws are endangered -some are extinct in the wild -so if a patient has been struck by a macaw, chances are, it was the patient's fault. W61.12XA: Struck by macaw, initial encounter. Shouldn't they have more control over their spacecraft than that? Or are they just careening around in the ether, pinging into one another and injuring occupants/astronauts? 2. The existence of this type of code does not engender trust in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. W22.02XD: V95.43XS: Spacecraft collision injuring occupant, sequela. "Other contact with cow." OTHER CONTACT WITH COW? There are codes for "bitten by cow" and "kicked by cow." What else is there?! What, precisely, is the contact with the cow that has necessitated a hospital visit?!ģ. W55.29XA: Other contact with cow, subsequent encounter. How does this happen? Are water skis even flammable? 4.
Y93.D: V91.07XD: Burn due to water-skis on fire, subsequent encounter. If a patient is going around whacking into lampposts regularly, there is a deeper problem here, and he should be referred to psych immediately. W220.2XD: Walked into lamppost, subsequent encounter. Z63.1: Problems in relationship with in-laws. Ducks, like most water fowl, are mean-spirited animals and this case should be treated with the utmost urgency as it is likely to be a serious injury. Maladies that rhyme should be given immediately priority in the ER. W61.62XD: Struck by duck, subsequent encounter. Also, what was this person doing in a farm setting in the first place? Pigs are not pets. W55.41XA: Bitten by pig, initial encounter.įirst, be sure that the patient is restrained from doing whatever he or she may have done to provoke the pig in the first place. V00.01XD: Pedestrian on foot injured in collision with roller-skater, subsequent encounter.įirst, are roller skates even still a thing anymore? I mean, other than how one knows spring has sprung in Central Park? Second, can you call a person on roller skates a pedestrian? Thirdly, if the answers to one and two are "yes," then these things should be outlawed, because they are obviously dangerous.Ĩ. The "sequela" here implies the kind of human bumper cars that can only happen at a music festival, the subway or possibly an active combat zone. W51.XXXA: Accidental striking against or bumped into by another person, sequela. (Technically, this means "subsequent encounter with a physician" not "subsequent encounter with a jet engine," but that's less dramatic.) 15. Second of all, this patient is obviously Wolverine, and should be detained for imaging and posterity. Sucked into a jet engine, survived, then sucked in again? First of all, that really, really sucks. V97.33XD: Sucked into jet engine, subsequent encounter.
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Therefore, behold! The 16 most absurd codes in the entire ICD-10 set, with a little advice from Healthcare Dive on how to handle these cases should they come into your ER: 16. There's even an illustrated book, Struck by an Orca: ICD-10 Illustrated. After yet another delay this year, the official changeover date is set for October 1, 2015, and 40% of respondents say they will be prepared to do end-to-end testing by the end of this year.ĭespite the controversy surrounding ICD-10, there is one universally agreed-upon upside to the hyper-specific coding system: Weird and obscure codes that stand for bizarre medical injuries. Still, providers are preparing for the switch.
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