By DeVry University
February 10, 2021
3 min read
February 10, 2021
3 min read
When classifying medical procedures and illnesses, medical billing and coding professionals are tasked with selecting the right ICD-10 codes from approximately 68,000 available options. It’s a stark difference from the previous coding schema, ICD-9, which was phased out in 2015 with just 13,000 codes. And as you might imagine, some of today’s medical billing codes are not only highly specific – they can also be a bit unusual.
Take a look at 10 of our favorite funny and strange ICD-10 codes in the infographic below.
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