ICD-10-CM › S00-T88 › T26-T28 › T26.01 Burn of right eyelid and periocular area › T26.01XA
Burn of right eyelid and periocular area, initial encounter
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
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.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Burn of right eyelid and periocular area, 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 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 |
|---|---|---|
| T26.01XD | Burn of right eyelid and periocular area, subsequent encounter | Valid |
| T26.01XS | Burn of right eyelid and periocular area, sequela | Valid |