AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 2006 Issue 2; Ask the Editor

Wound Botulism

The patient, a 51-year-old heroin dependent male, developed wound botulism. The only code classification for botulism in ICD-9-CM appears to be for food poisoning due to botulism. This patient became infected through subcutaneous black tar heroin injection into the deltoid area of the arm, rather than by a food borne method of infection. How should this be coded? ...

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