Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Injured By a Spacecraft? There’s a Diagnostic Code for That

So we’ve got this patient here who was injured in this spaceship accident. You know, just a routine, uh, orbital mishap. But how do we account for that? Oh, right, it’s ICD-9 code E845 — “Accident involving spacecraft.”
Apropos of nothing in particular, this billing code popped up on a couple of medical blogs last week [...]

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