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W60.XXXS

Contact with nonvenomous plant thorns and spines and sharp leaves, 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 Contact with nonvenomous plant thorns and spines and sharp leaves, 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 W60 Contact with nonvenomous plant thorns and spines and sharp leaves

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to code W60

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • Contact with venomous plants (T63.7-)

Inherited from the W50-W64 section Exposure to animate mechanical forces (W50-W64)

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • Toxic effect of contact with venomous animals and plants (T63.-)

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
W60.XXXA Contact with nonvenomous plant thorns and spines and sharp leaves, initial encounter Valid
W60.XXXD Contact with nonvenomous plant thorns and spines and sharp leaves, subsequent encounter Valid