Y92.828 — Other wilderness area as the place of occurrence of the external cause
Y92.828 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other wilderness area as the place of occurrence of the external cause. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Swamp as the place of occurrence of the external cause
- Mountain as the place of occurrence of the external cause
- Marsh as the place of occurrence of the external cause
- Prairie as the place of occurrence of the external cause
Risk adjustment
Y92.828 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
How Y92.828 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to Y92.828.
- Place of occurrence›hill
- Place of occurrence›marsh
- Place of occurrence›mountain
- Place of occurrence›pond
- Place of occurrence›prairie
- Place of occurrence›river
- Place of occurrence›stream
- Place of occurrence›swamp
- Place of occurrence›wilderness area
- Place of occurrence›lake›wilderness
- Place of occurrence›wilderness area›marsh
- Place of occurrence›wilderness area›mountain
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Y92.82. If Y92.828 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about Y92.828
- Is Y92.828 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Y92.828 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Y92.828 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Supplementary factors related to causes of morbidity classified elsewhere (Y90-Y99).