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Y92.230

Billable

Patient room in hospital 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 that occurred in a patient's hospital room. This code documents where the incident happened as part of the external cause of injury.

Coding Tips

  • Use this code only as a supplementary code to describe the location of an injury; it should never be the primary diagnosis code
  • Pair with the appropriate injury code (like fall, burn, etc.) to provide complete documentation of what happened and where

Code Hierarchy

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