ICD-10-CM › S00-T88 › S90-S99 › S90.5 Other superficial injuries of ankle › S90.55
Superficial foreign body of ankle
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.
Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:
- S90.551 Superficial foreign body, right ankle (also a header)
- S90.552 Superficial foreign body, left ankle (also a header)
- S90.559 Superficial foreign body, unspecified ankle (also a header)
This code requires a seventh character. See the rule below.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2012 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.
- FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Superficial foreign body of ankle
Official coding rules
Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.
Inherited from S90 Superficial injury of ankle, foot and toes
Seventh character required
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S90
Inherited from the S90-S99 section Injuries to the ankle and foot (S90-S99)
Excludes2 - not included here
- burns and corrosions (T20-T32)
- fracture of ankle and malleolus (S82.-)
- frostbite (T33-T34)
- insect bite or sting, venomous (T63.4)
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Emesis
- Retching
- Splinter
- Granuloma > talc
- Regurgitation > food
- Foreign body > granuloma
- Injury > ankle > superficial
- Reaction > foreign > body NEC
- Foreign body > lacrimal punctum
- Aspiration > syndrome of newborn
- Regurgitation > gastric contents
- Myositis > foreign body granuloma
- Pneumonia > neonatal > aspiration
- Syndrome > aspiration, of newborn
- Asphyxia, asphyxiation > inhalation
- Injury > superficial NEC > foreign body
- Injury > superficial NEC > ankle > foreign body
- Foreign body > entering through orifice > eyeball
- Foreign body > entering through orifice > lacrimal apparatus
- Foreign body > entering through orifice > tear ducts or glands
- Foreign body > superficial, without open wound > ankle
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| S90.51 | Abrasion of ankle | Not billable |
| S90.52 | Blister (nonthermal) of ankle | Not billable |
| S90.54 | External constriction of ankle | Not billable |
| S90.56 | Insect bite (nonvenomous) of ankle | Not billable |
| S90.57 | Other superficial bite of ankle | Not billable |