ICD-10-CM › S00-T88 › T15-T19 › T17.52 Food in bronchus › T17.528

T17.528

Food in bronchus causing other injury

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

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

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:

  • T17.528A Food in bronchus causing other injury, initial encounter
  • T17.528D Food in bronchus causing other injury, subsequent encounter
  • T17.528S Food in bronchus causing other injury, sequela

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

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2014 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. FY2014 Added to the draft code set draft Food in bronchus causing other injury

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 T17 Foreign body in respiratory tract

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category T17

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.

Showing 40 of 56 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
T17.520 Food in bronchus causing asphyxiation Not billable