You cannot cannot make this stuff up.
If you go to the Medicare and Medicaid health coding lookup site, you will see 9 different codes for encounters with an Orca, 12 for injuries from a jellyfish, 3 different codes for being pecked by a turkey, 9 codes for being bitten by a Sea Lion, 10 codes for chicken attack. as well as many other codes for interactions with alligators, turtles, snake, cows, horses, and raccoons. Oddly absent: any codes for being bitten by a fox. coyote, wolf, or cougar.
No, I am not making this up! Check out the link yourself, and in the comments let me know what odd codes you find.
No, I am not making this up! Check out the link yourself, and in the comments let me know what odd codes you find.
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Toxic effect of contact with venomous toad. Three types are identified unintentional,intentional/self harm,
and assault (!)
Are people being pelted with toads?
Lizards. There's codes for lizard bites.
Fish is the winner, however: between the fish themselves, and the fishing boats, over 50 codes.
No codes for bear??
That would be the coroner's code.
There's a code for bitten by Maccaw.
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