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T14.8

Other injury of unspecified body region

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

Billable FY2016 to FY2017, and a category header from FY2018.

Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:

  • T14.8XXA Other injury of unspecified body region, initial encounter
  • T14.8XXD Other injury of unspecified body region, subsequent encounter
  • T14.8XXS Other injury of unspecified body region, sequela

This code requires a seventh character. See the rule below.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2007 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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Other injury of suspecified body region
  2. FY2011 Draft description revised draft Other injury of suspecified body region Other injury of unspecified body region
  3. FY2018 Stopped being billable

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 T14 Injury of unspecified body region

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category T14

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • multiple unspecified injuries (T07)

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.

Showing 40 of 75 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
T14.9 Unspecified injury Not billable