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Wall Street Journal: Injured by a Spacecraft? There's a Diagnostic Code for That

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  • July 15, 2008
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So we’ve got this patient here who was injured in this spaceship accident. You know, just a routine, uh, orbital mishap. But how do we account for that? Oh, right, it’s ICD-9 code E845 — “Accident involving spacecraft.”
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