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Title: 1. Injury from rattlesnake bite, initial encounter when hiking as a tourist in a nearby state fore
Post by: cangyufeiyi on Dec 5, 2018
1.   Injury from rattlesnake bite, initial encounter when hiking as a tourist in a nearby state forest.  Assign the appropriate diagnosis code and the applicable external cause codes. Include the place of occurrence, activity, and status codes. (4 codes required)


Title: Re: 1. Injury from rattlesnake bite, initial encounter when hiking as a tourist in a nearby state ...
Post by: bio_man on Dec 6, 2018
Perhaps this fits the description: https://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/S00-T88/T51-T65/T63/T63.0-/T63.011A

Toxic effect of rattlesnake venom, accidental (unintentional), initial encounter

Initial I thought it was https://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/V00-Y99/W50-W64/W59-/W59.11XA but a rattlesnake is venomous.

Hope this helps