Burn and corrosion confined to eye and adnexa

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 10 more specific codes instead:

T26.0 Burn of eyelid and periocular area (also a header)
T26.1 Burn of cornea and conjunctival sac (also a header)
T26.2 Burn with resulting rupture and destruction of eyeball (also a header)
T26.3 Burns of other specified parts of eye and adnexa (also a header)
T26.4 Burn of eye and adnexa, part unspecified (also a header)
T26.5 Corrosion of eyelid and periocular area (also a header)
T26.6 Corrosion of cornea and conjunctival sac (also a header)
T26.7 Corrosion with resulting rupture and destruction of eyeball (also a header)
T26.8 Corrosions of other specified parts of eye and adnexa (also a header)
T26.9 Corrosion of eye and adnexa, part unspecified (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.

FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Burn and corrosion confined to eye and adnexa

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 T26