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Y92.040

Billable

Kitchen in boarding-house as the place of occurrence of the external cause

This code does not map to an HCC category in any model (V28, V24, ESRD, RxHCC).

What This Code Means

An injury or accident occurred in the kitchen area of a boarding house or residential facility.

Coding Tips

  • •Boarding houses include residential facilities where people rent rooms, distinct from hotels or hospitals
  • •Document the external cause separately to indicate what type of injury occurred (fall, burn, cut, etc.)

Code Hierarchy

└Y92Place of occurrence of the external cause└Y92.0Non-institutional (private) residence as the place of occurrence of the external cause└Y92.04Boarding-house as the place of occurrence of the external cause└Y92.040Kitchen in boarding-house as the place of occurrence of the external cause
└Y92.040Kitchen in boarding-house as the place of occurrence of the external cause

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