ICD-10-CM › S00-T88 › T66-T78 › T70 Effects of air pressure and water pressure › T70.3
Caisson disease [decompression sickness]
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:
- T70.3XXA Caisson disease [decompression sickness], initial encounter
- T70.3XXD Caisson disease [decompression sickness], subsequent encounter
- T70.3XXS Caisson disease [decompression sickness], 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 Caisson disease [decompression sickness]
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 T70 Effects of air pressure and water pressure
Seventh character required
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category T70
Inherited from the T66-T78 section Other and unspecified effects of external causes (T66-T78)
Code also
- , if applicable, place of occurrence, such as:
- highway rest stop (Y92.523)
- school (private) (public) (state) as the place of occurrence of the external cause (Y92.21-)
- service areas as the place of occurrence of the external cause (Y92.52-)
- single-family non-institutional (private) house as the place of occurrence of the external cause (Y92.01-)
- transport vehicle as the place of occurrence of the external cause (Y92.81-)
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.
- Arthropyosis
- Pyoarthrosis
- Septic > joint
- Abscess > joint
- Pyemia, pyemic > joint
- Pyarthritis, pyarthrosis
- Necrosis, necrotic > bone
- Arthritis, arthritic > septic
- Necrosis, necrotic > vertebra
- Arthritis, arthritic > purulent
- Suppuration, suppurative > joint
- Arthritis, arthritic > suppurative
- Necrosis, necrotic > spine, spinal
- Arthritis, arthritic > in > infection
- Disease, diseased > joint > suppurative
- Polyarthritis, polyarthropathy > infective
- Arthritis, arthritic > in > coliform bacilli
- Arthritis, arthritic > infectious or infective
- Necrosis, necrotic > hip, aseptic or avascular
- Necrosis, necrotic > bone > aseptic or avascular
- Bends
- Chokes
- Dysbarism
- Aerobullosis
- Aeroembolism
- Caisson disease
- Palsy > diver's
- Squeeze, diver's
- Compressed air disease
- Decompression sickness
- Sickness > decompression
- Air > compressed, disease
- Sickness > compressed air
- Disease, diseased > caisson
- Compression > diver's squeeze
- Paralysis, paralytic > diver's
- Arthralgia > in caisson disease
- Disease, diseased > compressed air
- Diver's palsy, paralysis or squeeze
- Paralysis, paralytic > compressed air
Showing 40 of 65 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| T70.0 | Otitic barotrauma | Not billable |
| T70.1 | Sinus barotrauma | Not billable |
| T70.2 | Other and unspecified effects of high altitude | Not billable |
| T70.4 | Effects of high-pressure fluids | Not billable |
| T70.8 | Other effects of air pressure and water pressure | Not billable |
| T70.9 | Effect of air pressure and water pressure, unspecified | Not billable |