Boat accidents, can now be codified!

[Kiltmadoc]

Here is a short list of some of the new medical codes that Doctors use to bill for services, The ones listed all a regarding sailboat accidents. What i really like are the codes for "drowning.....subsequent encounter"...how do you have more than one visit for drowning?!?

V9004XA Drowning and submersion due to sailboat overturning, initial encounter
V9004XD Drowning and submersion due to sailboat overturning, subsequent encounter
V9004XS Drowning and submersion due to sailboat overturning, sequela
V9014XA Drowning and submersion due to sailboat sinking, initial encounter
V9014XD Drowning and submersion due to sailboat sinking, subsequent encounter
V9014XS Drowning and submersion due to sailboat sinking, sequela
V9024XA Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from burning sailboat, initial encounter
V9024XD Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from burning sailboat, subsequent encounter
V9024XS Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from burning sailboat, sequela
V9034XA Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from crushed sailboat, initial encounter
V9034XD Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from crushed sailboat, subsequent encounter
V9034XS Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from crushed sailboat, sequela
V9084XA Drowning and submersion due to other accident to sailboat, initial encounter
V9084XD Drowning and submersion due to other accident to sailboat, subsequent encounter
V9084XS Drowning and submersion due to other accident to sailboat, sequela

[Kiltmadoc]

link, for those interested: A Code for What Ails You - WSJ.com

[emoney]

The subsequent encounter for drowning is actually the "follow-up" visit. Always normal any time you're seen for ER type incidents.

[rayncyn51]

We're doomed...

[ronspiker]

The subsequent encounter is after you have been plucked from the sea by the crew and they determine you are still an idiot and they throw you back in

[rayncyn51]

drowned, drown·ing, drowns
v.tr.
1. To kill by submerging and suffocating in water or another liquid.

How does one have a follow up visit to drowning? Should my survivors keep me on ice until the follow-up visit, or do we proceed with the funeral and dig me up the day before my appointment. God knows I have to get this right, or my insurance isn't going to pay.

[rayncyn51]

And if I drown by inhaling spray in a hurricane, that is I have been "immersed" rather than "submersed", is there a differnet code for that?!?! ;-)

[Kiltmadoc]

Originally Posted by emoney

The subsequent encounter for drowning is actually the "follow-up" visit. Always normal any time you're seen for ER type incidents.

Note that it describes DROWNING: only the mortician needs a "follow up" with you at that point.

[Sublime]

Maybe the subsequent encounter is the autopsy?

ER doc: "He's dead."

ME: "Yep, he's dead."

[nolatom]

"Codified" means you end up surrounded by cod after your boat accident.