ICD-10-CM › S00-T88 › T26-T28 › T26.0 Burn of eyelid and periocular area › T26.00

T26.00

Burn of unspecified eyelid and periocular area

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 3 more specific codes instead:

  • T26.00XA Burn of unspecified eyelid and periocular area, initial encounter
  • T26.00XD Burn of unspecified eyelid and periocular area, subsequent encounter
  • T26.00XS Burn of unspecified eyelid and periocular area, 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.

  1. FY2014 Added to the draft code set draft Burn of unspecified eyelid and periocular area

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
T26.01 Burn of right eyelid and periocular area Not billable
T26.02 Burn of left eyelid and periocular area Not billable