ICD-10-CM › S00-T88 › T20-T25 › T codes › T20

T20

Burn and corrosion of head, face, and neck

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 8 more specific codes instead:

  • T20.0 Burn of unspecified degree of head, face, and neck (also a header)
  • T20.1 Burn of first degree of head, face, and neck (also a header)
  • T20.2 Burn of second degree of head, face, and neck (also a header)
  • T20.3 Burn of third degree of head, face, and neck (also a header)
  • T20.4 Corrosion of unspecified degree of head, face, and neck (also a header)
  • T20.5 Corrosion of first degree of head, face, and neck (also a header)
  • T20.6 Corrosion of second degree of head, face, and neck (also a header)
  • T20.7 Corrosion of third degree of head, face, and neck (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.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Burn and corrosion of head, face, and neck

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.

This code

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category T20

Excludes2 - not included here

  • burn and corrosion of ear drum (T28.41, T28.91)
  • burn and corrosion of eye and adnexa (T26.-)
  • burn and corrosion of mouth and pharynx (T28.0)

Inherited from the T20-T25 section Burns and corrosions of external body surface, specified by site (T20-T25)

Use additional code

  • code from category T31 or T32 to identify extent of body surface involved

Includes

  • burns and corrosions of first degree [erythema]
  • burns and corrosions of second degree [blisters][epidermal loss]
  • burns and corrosions of third degree [deep necrosis of underlying tissue] [full- thickness skin loss]