Corrosion of left eye and adnexa, part unspecified, initial encounter

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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 Corrosion of left eye and adnexa, part unspecified, 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.

Corrosion > eye and adnexa

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
T26.92XD	Corrosion of left eye and adnexa, part unspecified, subsequent encounter	Valid
T26.92XS	Corrosion of left eye and adnexa, part unspecified, sequela	Valid