ICD-10-CM › S00-T88 › T33-T34 › T34 Frostbite with tissue necrosis › T34.6
Frostbite with tissue necrosis of hip and thigh
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:
- T34.60 Frostbite with tissue necrosis of unspecified hip and thigh (also a header)
- T34.61 Frostbite with tissue necrosis of right hip and thigh (also a header)
- T34.62 Frostbite with tissue necrosis of left hip and thigh (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 Frostbite with tissue necrosis of hip and thigh
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 T34 Frostbite with tissue necrosis
Seventh character required
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category T34
Inherited from the T33-T34 section Frostbite (T33-T34)
Excludes2 - not included here
- hypothermia and other effects of reduced temperature (T68, T69.-)
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.
- Frozen
- Freezing
- Frostbite > thigh
- Frostbite > leg > toe
- Frostbite > leg > thigh
- Effect, adverse > cold > frostbite
- Frostbite > leg > with tissue necrosis
- Frostbite > with > partial thickness skin loss
- Frostbite > hip > with tissue necrosis
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| T34.0 | Frostbite with tissue necrosis of head | Not billable |
| T34.1 | Frostbite with tissue necrosis of neck | Not billable |
| T34.2 | Frostbite with tissue necrosis of thorax | Not billable |
| T34.3 | Frostbite with tissue necrosis of abdominal wall, lower back and pelvis | Not billable |
| T34.4 | Frostbite with tissue necrosis of arm | Not billable |
| T34.5 | Frostbite with tissue necrosis of wrist, hand, and finger(s) | Not billable |
| T34.7 | Frostbite with tissue necrosis of knee and lower leg | Not billable |
| T34.8 | Frostbite with tissue necrosis of ankle, foot, and toe(s) | Not billable |
| T34.9 | Frostbite with tissue necrosis of other and unspecified sites | Not billable |