ICD-10-CM › S00-T88 › T15-T19 › T18.12 Food in esophagus › T18.128
Food in esophagus 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.
Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:
- T18.128A Food in esophagus causing other injury, initial encounter
- T18.128D Food in esophagus causing other injury, subsequent encounter
- T18.128S Food in esophagus 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.
- FY2014 Added to the draft code set draft Food in esophagus 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 T18 Foreign body in alimentary tract
Seventh character required
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category T18
Excludes2 - not included here
- foreign body in pharynx (T17.2-)
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
- Ingestion > foreign body
- 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
- Swallowed, swallowing > foreign body
- Foreign body > alimentary tract > esophagus
- Foreign body > entering through orifice > eyeball
- Foreign body > entering through orifice > esophagus
- Foreign body > entering through orifice > lacrimal apparatus
- Foreign body > entering through orifice > tear ducts or glands
- Foreign body > esophagus > causing > injury NEC > food
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| T18.120 | Food in esophagus causing compression of trachea | Not billable |