Corrosion with resulting rupture and destruction of right 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.

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:

T26.71XA Corrosion with resulting rupture and destruction of right eyeball, initial encounter
T26.71XD Corrosion with resulting rupture and destruction of right eyeball, subsequent encounter
T26.71XS Corrosion with resulting rupture and destruction of right eyeball, 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.

FY2014 Added to the draft code set draft Corrosion with resulting rupture and destruction of right 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.

Corrosion > eye and adnexa > with resulting rupture and destruction of eyeball

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
T26.70	Corrosion with resulting rupture and destruction of unspecified eyeball	Not billable
T26.72	Corrosion with resulting rupture and destruction of left eyeball	Not billable