Question

A 47-year-old man was seen in the emergency room with complaints of nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and cramping. The patient is a known diabetic whose diabetes is secondary to history of blunt trauma to the pancreas. Blood sugar levels on admission were greater than 600 mg/dL. Final diagnoses: (1) Secondary diabetic ketoacidosis, (2) diabetes mellitus secondary to history of blunt trauma to the pancreas. Assign the appropriate codes.

Answer 1

1) ICD -10- CM code for secondary diabetes ketoacidosis is E13.10.

2) ICD-10-CM code for Diabetes mellitus secondary to history of blunt trauma to the pancrease is S36.209A ( Intial encounter ; blunt trauma to the pancrease unspecified part )