ICD-10-CM › S00-T88 › T26-T28 › T26 Burn and corrosion confined to eye... › T26.0

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:

• T26.00 Burn of unspecified eyelid and periocular area (also a header)
• T26.01 Burn of right eyelid and periocular area (also a header)
• T26.02 Burn of left eyelid and periocular area (also a header)

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

What has happened to this code

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 T26 Burn and corrosion confined to eye and adnexa

Seventh character required

• The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category T26

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.

• Burn > canthus
• Burn > orbit region
• Burn > periocular area
• Burn > eye and adnexa > lid
• Burn > eye and adnexa > periocular area
• Burn > eyelid

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
T26.1	Burn of cornea and conjunctival sac	Not billable
T26.2	Burn with resulting rupture and destruction of eyeball	Not billable
T26.3	Burns of other specified parts of eye and adnexa	Not billable
T26.4	Burn of eye and adnexa, part unspecified	Not billable
T26.5	Corrosion of eyelid and periocular area	Not billable
T26.6	Corrosion of cornea and conjunctival sac	Not billable
T26.7	Corrosion with resulting rupture and destruction of eyeball	Not billable
T26.8	Corrosions of other specified parts of eye and adnexa	Not billable
T26.9	Corrosion of eye and adnexa, part unspecified	Not billable