ICD-10 Codes for Holiday Mishaps
With the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, it is very easy to get distracted with accidents due to extra activities and overlook everyday actions that help us to be safe and happy. Accidents during such holiday season will make physician, emergence care and urgency care little busy. Treatments can be reimbursed with medical claims provided by patients by accurate medical codes. To make reimbursement faster providers will depend on trusted medical coding companies to report such injuries via accurate medical codes. Below are the few codes that may help providers and medical coding companies to report holiday accidents with accurate ICD-10 codes. Decoration-related Accidents During holidays like Christmas and New Year, people use to climb on ladders or trees for lighting decoration and other activities. W00.9xxA – fall due to Ice & Snow Running around the snow and ice often results in injuries. For fall on the same level due to ice and snow use W00.0 or if fall from steps or