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W61.62XD ICD-10-CM Code: Struck by duck, subsequent encounter

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

Code Overview

Struck by duck, subsequent encounter is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (W61.62D).

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 W61.62XD 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 W61.62XD 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
    Struck by duck, subsequent encounter

No changes since FY2016 — additions, deletions, description changes and billable-status changes are tracked through FY2027, and none are recorded for this code. Note changes are tracked from FY2027 only.

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):EXT029 — External cause codes: subsequent encounter.

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 category (External cause codes: subsequent encounter).

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Contextual Map

Every relationship of W61.62XD 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)

  • EXT029 — External cause codes: subsequent encounter [CCSR]

Nearest codes (40)

  • W61 — Contact with birds (domestic) (wild) [Sibling]
  • W61.49XD — Other contact with turkey, subsequent encounter [Sibling]
  • W61.49XS — Other contact with turkey, sequela [Sibling]
  • W61.5 — Contact with goose [Sibling]
  • W61.51 — Bitten by goose [Sibling]
  • W61.51XA — Bitten by goose, initial encounter [Sibling]
  • W61.51XD — Bitten by goose, subsequent encounter [Sibling]
  • W61.51XS — Bitten by goose, sequela [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 W61.62XD 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 W61.62XD in its code family, with their registry titles.

  • W61.61XA — Bitten by duck, initial encounter
  • W61.61XD — Bitten by duck, subsequent encounter
  • W61.61XS — Bitten by duck, sequela
  • W61.62 — Struck by duck
  • W61.62XA — Struck by duck, initial encounter
  • W61.62XS — Struck by duck, sequela
  • W61.69 — Other contact with duck
  • W61.69XA — Other contact with duck, initial encounter
  • W61.69XD — Other contact with duck, subsequent encounter
  • W61.69XS — Other contact with duck, sequela

View all codes in the W61 family