ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › X10-X19 › X11 Contact with hot tap-water › X11.0

X11.0

Contact with hot water in bath or tub

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:

  • X11.0XXA Contact with hot water in bath or tub, initial encounter
  • X11.0XXD Contact with hot water in bath or tub, subsequent encounter
  • X11.0XXS Contact with hot water in bath or tub, 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.

  1. FY2014 Added to the draft code set draft Contact with hot water in bath or tub

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 X11 Contact with hot tap-water

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category X11

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • contact with water heated on stove (X12)

Includes

  • contact with boiling tap-water
  • contact with boiling water NOS

Inherited from the X10-X19 section Contact with heat and hot substances (X10-X19)

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • exposure to excessive natural heat (X30)
  • exposure to fire and flames (X00-X08)

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
X11.1 Contact with running hot water Not billable
X11.8 Contact with other hot tap-water Not billable