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W61.43XA ICD-10-CM Code: Pecked by turkey, initial encounter

Billing Status: YES. This is a valid, specific, and billable ICD-10-CM reference.

Code Overview

Pecked by turkey, initial encounter is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (W61.43A).

Summary composed by MedCoder from this code's official ICD-10-CM record. The tabular instructional notes themselves appear verbatim below.

Official Tabular Instructional Notes

Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for W61.43XA in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.

Includes

Conditions the official ICD-10-CM tabular list includes under this code.

  • contact with excreta of birds inherited from W61

Excludes1 — Not Coded Here

Conditions generally not reported together with this code (Excludes1) -- an error unless the two conditions are documented as unrelated to each other (ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines, Section I.A.12.a).

Frequently Compared Codes

The official Excludes notes on W61.43XA name these codes. Each comparison page covers when the two can — or must not — be reported together.

Change history

  • FY2016 — 2015-10-01
    In the code set at ICD-10-CM adoption
    Pecked by turkey, initial encounter

Verify Before Coding

  • Principal-diagnosis restriction. External cause of morbidity codes (V, W, X and Y) describe the circumstance that caused an injury, not the condition treated. The Medicare Code Editor rejects them as a principal diagnosis; sequence the injury or condition first and report this code as secondary.

From the code registry, the Medicare Code Editor, and the MS-DRG Definitions Manual. Check it against a full claim in Claim Check.

Relationships & Classification

Clinical classification (AHRQ CCSR):EXT011 — External cause codes: natural/environment; initial encounter; EXT020 — External cause codes: intent of injury, accidental/unintentional.

Clinical Classifications Software Refined (CCSR) for ICD-10-CM Diagnoses. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Related Codes

Same clinical category (CCSR)

AHRQ's Clinical Classifications Software groups these diagnoses under the same clinical categories (External cause codes: natural/environment; initial encounter, External cause codes: intent of injury, accidental/unintentional).

W61.02XA — Struck by parrot, initial encounter, W61.09XA — Other contact with parrot, initial encounter, W61.12XA — Struck by macaw, initial encounter, W61.19XA — Other contact with macaw, initial encounter, W61.22XA — Struck by other psittacines, initial encounter, W61.29XA — Other contact with other psittacines, initial encounter, W61.32XA — Struck by chicken, initial encounter, W61.33XA — Pecked by chicken, initial encounter, W61.39XA — Other contact with chicken, initial encounter, W61.42XA — Struck by turkey, initial encounter, W61.49XA — Other contact with turkey, initial encounter, W61.52XA — Struck by goose, initial encounter, W61.59XA — Other contact with goose, initial encounter, W61.62XA — Struck by duck, initial encounter, W61.69XA — Other contact with duck, initial encounter, W61.92XA — Struck by other birds, initial encounter, W61.99XA — Other contact with other birds, initial encounter, W62.0XXA — Contact with nonvenomous frogs, initial encounter, W62.1XXA — Contact with nonvenomous toads, initial encounter, W62.9XXA — Contact with other nonvenomous amphibians, initial encounter, +2297 more

Contextual Map

Every relationship of W61.43XA in one view: hierarchy, official tabular instructions in both directions, clinical classification, risk adjustment, MS-DRG participation, index terms and change history — each edge carrying the CMS source it derives from.

Hierarchy

  • V00-Y99 — Chapter 20: External Causes of Morbidity (V00-Y99) (V00-Y99) [Hierarchy]
  • W00-X58 — Other external causes of accidental injury [Hierarchy]
  • W50-W64 — Exposure to animate mechanical forces [Hierarchy]

Clinical classification (CCSR)

  • EXT011 — External cause codes: natural/environment; initial encounter [CCSR]
  • EXT020 — External cause codes: intent of injury, accidental/unintentional [CCSR]

Nearest codes (40)

  • W61 — Contact with birds (domestic) (wild) [Sibling]
  • W61.29XS — Other contact with other psittacines, sequela [Sibling]
  • W61.3 — Contact with chicken [Sibling]
  • W61.32 — Struck by chicken [Sibling]
  • W61.32XA — Struck by chicken, initial encounter [Sibling]
  • W61.32XD — Struck by chicken, subsequent encounter [Sibling]
  • W61.32XS — Struck by chicken, sequela [Sibling]
  • W61.33 — Pecked by chicken [Sibling]
  • and 32 more

Change history

  • FY2016 — In the code set at ICD-10-CM adoption [Change history]

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) & Clinical Guidance

Does W61.43XA require a 7th character?

Yes. The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category W61.

Nearest Codes in This Family

Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to W61.43XA in its code family, with their registry titles.

  • W61.42 — Struck by turkey
  • W61.42XA — Struck by turkey, initial encounter
  • W61.42XD — Struck by turkey, subsequent encounter
  • W61.42XS — Struck by turkey, sequela
  • W61.43 — Pecked by turkey
  • W61.43XD — Pecked by turkey, subsequent encounter
  • W61.43XS — Pecked by turkey, sequela
  • W61.49 — Other contact with turkey
  • W61.49XA — Other contact with turkey, initial encounter
  • W61.49XD — Other contact with turkey, subsequent encounter

View all codes in the W61 family