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T63.612S

Toxic effect of contact with Portuguese Man-o-war, intentional self-harm, sequela

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 Toxic effect of contact with Portugese Man-o-war, self- harm, sequela
  2. FY2010 Draft description revised draft Toxic effect of contact with Portugese Man-o-war, self- harm, sequela Toxic effect of contact with Portugese Man-o-war, self-harm, sequela
  3. FY2011 Draft description revised draft Toxic effect of contact with Portugese Man-o-war, self-harm, sequela Toxic effect of contact with Portugese Man-o-war, intentional self-harm, sequela
  4. FY2022 Description revised Toxic effect of contact with Portugese Man-o-war, intentional self-harm, sequela Toxic effect of contact with Portuguese Man-o-war, intentional self-harm, sequela

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 T63 Toxic effect of contact with venomous animals and plants

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category T63

Excludes2 - not included here

  • ingestion of toxic animal or plant (T61.-, T62.-)

Includes

  • bite or touch of venomous animal
  • pricked or stuck by thorn or leaf

Inherited from the T51-T65 section Toxic effects of substances chiefly nonmedicinal as to source (T51-T65)

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • contact with and (suspected) exposure to toxic substances (Z77.-)

Use additional code

  • code(s):
  • for all associated manifestations of toxic effect, such as: respiratory conditions due to external agents (J60-J70)
  • personal history of foreign body fully removed (Z87.821)
  • to identify any retained foreign body, if applicable (Z18.-)

Note

  • When no intent is indicated code to accidental. Undetermined intent is only for use when there is specific documentation in the record that the intent of the toxic effect cannot be determined.

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
T63.612A Toxic effect of contact with Portuguese Man-o-war, intentional self-harm, initial encounter Valid
T63.612D Toxic effect of contact with Portuguese Man-o-war, intentional self-harm, subsequent encounter Valid