The 18 Most Bizarre ICD-10 Codes [Infographic]

Written By Jaime Grimes

While the ICD-10 implementation deadline has changed a few times, the ICD-10 code itself is set - and quite specific. If you go to the hospital because of, say, a sea lion bite, a fall into a prison swimming pool or a nasty library injury, you're covered in coding terms, as there's a code for those specific instances.

In the infographic below from the CureMD Blog, discover the 18 most bizarre ICD-10 codes to date.  (Most are different from our first infographic on crazy ICD-10 codes.)

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