ICD-10-CM › S00-T88 › T26-T28 › T26 Burn and corrosion confined to eye... › T26.2
Burn with resulting rupture and destruction of eyeball
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.
Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:
- T26.20 Burn with resulting rupture and destruction of unspecified eyeball (also a header)
- T26.21 Burn with resulting rupture and destruction of right eyeball (also a header)
- T26.22 Burn with resulting rupture and destruction of left eyeball (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 with resulting rupture and destruction of eyeball
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 > eye and adnexa > with resulting rupture and destruction of eyeball
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| T26.0 | Burn of eyelid and periocular area | Not billable |
| T26.1 | Burn of cornea and conjunctival sac | 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 |