By now we’ve likely all seen the book, Struck by Orca, in which a number of artists “representing a diverse background in healthcare” illustrated their favorite, funny (strange may be a better word) actual ICD-10 codes.
Some of you may have seen last year’s “Twas the Night Before Christmas—ICD-10 Style” at healthcare coding membership organization AAPC’s website. Given the time of year and the fact that we still find this to be really clever, we thought we’d share a couple of them with you.
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse
- W53.01XA Bitten by mouse, initial encounter
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there
- X06.2XXA Exposure to ignition of other clothing and apparel, initial encounter
The Children were nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of sugarplums danced in their heads
- Y93.84 Activity, sleeping
- Y92.013 Bedroom of singly family (private) house as the place of occurrence of the external cause
And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap, had just settled down for a long winter’s nap
- W93.2XXA Prolonged exposure in deep freeze unit or refrigerator, initial encounter
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter
- W42.9XXA Exposure to other noise, initial encounter
- W06.XXXA Fall from bed, initial encounter
Away to the window I flew like a flash, tore open the shutters and threw up the sash
- W13.4XXA Fall from, out of or through window, initial encounter
Ok, you get the picture.
Here’s the link to the full poem. We hope you find it as funny as we did. And we hope you have a great holiday.
