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T23.191A

Burn of first degree of multiple sites of right wrist and hand, initial encounter

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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 Burn of first degree of multiple sites of right of wrist and hand, initial encounter
  2. FY2011 Draft description revised draft Burn of first degree of multiple sites of right of wrist and hand, initial encounter Burn of first degree of multiple sites of right wrist and hand, 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 T23 Burn and corrosion of wrist and hand

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category T23

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]

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
T23.191D Burn of first degree of multiple sites of right wrist and hand, subsequent encounter Valid
T23.191S Burn of first degree of multiple sites of right wrist and hand, sequela Valid