ICD-10-CM › S00-T88 › T15-T19 › T15.01 Foreign body in cornea, right eye › T15.01XA
Foreign body in cornea, right eye, initial encounter
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
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.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Foreign body in cornea, right eye, initial encounter
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 T15 Foreign body on external eye
Seventh character required
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category T15
Excludes2 - not included here
- foreign body in penetrating wound of orbit and eye ball (S05.4-, S05.5-)
- open wound of eyelid and periocular area (S01.1-)
- retained foreign body in eyelid (H02.8-)
- retained (old) foreign body in penetrating wound of orbit and eye ball (H05.5-, H44.6-, H44.7-)
- superficial foreign body of eyelid and periocular area (S00.25-)
Inherited from the T15-T19 section Effects of foreign body entering through natural orifice (T15-T19)
Excludes2 - not included here
- foreign body accidentally left in operation wound (T81.5-)
- foreign body in penetrating wound - See open wound by body region
- residual foreign body in soft tissue (M79.5)
- splinter, without open wound - See superficial injury by body region
Use additional code
- code, if known, for foreign body entering into or through a natural orifice (W44.-)
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
- Granuloma > talc
- Regurgitation > food
- Foreign body > granuloma
- 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
- Incrustation, cornea, foreign body
- Asphyxia, asphyxiation > inhalation
- Contusion > cornea > with foreign body
- Foreign body > entering through orifice > cornea
- Foreign body > entering through orifice > eyeball
- Foreign body > entering through orifice > eye NOS > cornea
- Foreign body > entering through orifice > lacrimal apparatus
- Foreign body > entering through orifice > tear ducts or glands
- Foreign body > cornea
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| T15.01XD | Foreign body in cornea, right eye, subsequent encounter | Valid |
| T15.01XS | Foreign body in cornea, right eye, sequela | Valid |