ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › W50-W64 › W62.1 Contact with nonvenomous toads › W62.1XXA

W62.1XXA

Contact with nonvenomous toads, initial encounter

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2007 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. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Contact with nonvenomous toads, initial encounter

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.

Inherited from W62 Contact with nonvenomous amphibians

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category W62

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • contact with venomous amphibians (T63.81-T63.83)

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.-)

How CDC's index refers to this code

Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
W62.1XXD Contact with nonvenomous toads, subsequent encounter Valid
W62.1XXS Contact with nonvenomous toads, sequela Valid