Wiki Nerve injury due to H1N1 vaccination

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I spent way too much time looking into this and thought I'd just throw it on a thread...

Pt comes back in for pain in R arm since she rec'd H1N1 vaccine. Dr dx'd:
Injury, nerve, due to injection (H1N1) (R)UE

Isn't there an E code to explain this too? Is there another more appropriate code?
 
See E949.6 for your E code. To see how I found it, go to the Table of drugs in the ICD-9 book and go down to vaccines then to influenza. For therapeutic use it takes you to E949.6.
 
Thank you! I was stuck in late effects and reading the e codes page by page. Totally forgot about the drug table for that!

Thanks again!!
 
A question

Is the injury to nerve due to the NEEDLE or is it due to the VACCINE (effect of the drug itself).

If it's the needle look for an E-code for needlestick hypodermic E920.5

If it's the vaccine use the drug table for the effect.

Hope that helps.

F Tessa Bartels, CPC, CEMC
 
Okay, so I'm sure with the way it's written that it's from the needle. I did see that code but I was uncomfortable with using the "Accident caused by hypodermic needle", especially since it has needle stick and contaminated needle listed as examples.
 
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