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W61

Contact with birds (domestic) (wild)

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 8 more specific codes instead:

  • W61.0 Contact with parrot (also a header)
  • W61.1 Contact with macaw (also a header)
  • W61.2 Contact with other psittacines (also a header)
  • W61.3 Contact with chicken (also a header)
  • W61.4 Contact with turkey (also a header)
  • W61.5 Contact with goose (also a header)
  • W61.6 Contact with duck (also a header)
  • W61.9 Contact with other birds (also a header)

This code requires a seventh character. See the rule below.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Contact with birds (domestic) (wild)

Official coding rules

Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.

This code

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category W61

Includes

  • contact with excreta of birds

Inherited from the W50-W64 section Exposure to animate mechanical forces (W50-W64)

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • Toxic effect of contact with venomous animals and plants (T63.-)