Economic Impact of the Opioid Epidemic: 55 billion in health and social costs related to. prescription opioid abuse each year1. 20 billion in emergency department and. inpatient care for opioid poisonings2. Source: Pain Med. 2011;12(4):657-67.1. 2013;14(10):1534-47.2.
1 S13.4XXA is a billable ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes. 2  Reimbursement claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015 require the use of ICD-10-CM codes. 3  This is the American ICD-10-CM version of S13.4XXA. 4  Other international ICD-10 versions may differ.
The coding for strains and sprains is more specific in ICD10 as there are separate codes for strains and sprains while ICD9 uses one code to designate strain or sprain.