8 Crazy ICD-10 Codes We Hope You Never See [Infographic]
The next time your in-laws give you trouble - and you go to the hospital for it - your hospital staff should know exactly how to code that if they've completed the switch to ICD-10. Though some zany codes for ICD-9, like an injury by a spacecraft or one caused by a paintball gun, won't make the cut when hospital codes update to ICD-10, the latter still provides plenty of good, clean wholesome code to laugh at (like that previously mentioned in-laws one). From Healthcare IT News' "ICD-10 Compliance and Beyond" feature, here are the eight zaniest codes on the books.
