ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code E856 - Accidental poisoning by antibiotics (original) (raw)

Accidental poisoning by antibiotics

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E856 is a legacy non-billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of accidental poisoning by antibiotics. This code was replaced on September 30, 2015 by its ICD-10 equivalent.

ICD-9-CM Code:

E856

ICD-9 Code for:

Acc poison-antibiotics

The following crosswalk between ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM is based based on the General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS) information:

General Equivalence Map Definitions
The ICD-9 and ICD-10 GEMs are used to facilitate linking between the diagnosis codes in ICD-9-CM and the new ICD-10-CM code set. The GEMs are the raw material from which providers, health information vendors and payers can derive specific applied mappings to meet their needs.