ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › X10-X19 › X13.0 Inhalation of steam and other hot vapors › X13.0XXA

X13.0XXA

Inhalation of steam and other hot vapors, initial encounter

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 Inhalation of steam and other hot vapors, initial encounter

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 X13 Contact with steam and other hot vapors

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category X13

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
X13.0XXD Inhalation of steam and other hot vapors, subsequent encounter Valid
X13.0XXS Inhalation of steam and other hot vapors, sequela Valid