So long as weird accidents show up in emergency rooms, there will be a proliferation of codes.
I can guess the code “forehead laceration by Tuba” might be one of the 68,000 codes and that my son’s mishap with his friend’s tuba bell is responsible.
The bell was on the ground. My son stumbled and fell, cutting his forehead on the exposed meeting edge. It bled a lot but was not really serious.
2014 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code Y93.J4
Activity, winds and brass instrument playing
Y93.J4 describes the circumstance causing an injury, not the nature of the injury, and therefore should not be used as a principal diagnosis.