AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 2003 Fourth Quarter; VOLUMES 1 & 2 NEW/REVISED CODES

External Constriction E Code

Effective October 1, 2003, a new external cause of injury code has been created to report external constriction caused by hair (E928.4) and external constriction caused by other object (E928.5) Coding Clinic First Quarter 2003, page 13,described a case of hair strangulation of a toe. At the time of publication there was no E code available to describe the cause of the injury associated with hair strangulation. Code E928.4 may be used as an additional code to provide additional information regarding the external cause of injury. E928 Other and unspecified environmental and accidental causes New...

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