Question

Code the following scenario utilizing ICD-10-CM: There are 9 codes, make sure you sequence them correctly (What is included in the 9 codes need to code for how the injury happened, where the injury happened, the activity what the patient was doing when the injury happened)

Please make sure there is 9 codes to be assigned

The patient was admitted following a fall from a ladder at home while watering flowerboxes in the garden, in which she sustained numerous injuries. X-rays showed a nondisplaced fracture of the right humeral neck. A splint was applied, but no other treatment was required. There were contusions on her forehead, thighs, and knees, as well as small abrasions of her forehead and right thigh. The patient received pain medications because of the contusions. The abrasions were superficial and healed without treatment and without evidence of infection.

Answer 1

Answer

1) S42.214A- Unspecified nondisplaced fracture of surgical neck of right humerus, initial encounter for closed fracture.

2) S00.83XA- Contusion of other part of head, initial encounter

3) S70.10XA- Contusion of unspecified thigh, initial encounter

4) S80.00XA- Contusion of unspecified knee, initial encounter

5) S00.81XA- Abrasion of other part of head, initial encounter

6) S70.311A- Abrasion of right thigh, initial encounter

7) W11.XXXA- Fall on and from ladder, initial encounter

8) Y93.H2- Activity, gardening and landscaping

9) Y92.096- Garden or yard of other non-institutional residence as the place of occurrence of the external cause