ICD-10-CM › S00-T88 › T30-T32 › T31.8 Burns involving 80-89% of body surface › T31.87

T31.87

Burns involving 80-89% of body surface with 70-79% third degree burns

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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Burns involving 80-89% of body surface with 70-79% third degree burns

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 T31 Burns classified according to extent of body surface involved

Note

  • This category is to be used as the primary code only when the site of the burn is unspecified. It should be used as a supplementary code with categories T20-T25 when the site is specified.

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
T31.80 Burns involving 80-89% of body surface with 0% to 9% third degree burns Valid
T31.81 Burns involving 80-89% of body surface with 10-19% third degree burns Valid
T31.82 Burns involving 80-89% of body surface with 20-29% third degree burns Valid
T31.83 Burns involving 80-89% of body surface with 30-39% third degree burns Valid
T31.84 Burns involving 80-89% of body surface with 40-49% third degree burns Valid
T31.85 Burns involving 80-89% of body surface with 50-59% third degree burns Valid
T31.86 Burns involving 80-89% of body surface with 60-69% third degree burns Valid
T31.88 Burns involving 80-89% of body surface with 80-89% third degree burns Valid