ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › X10-X19 › X15 Contact with hot household appliances › X15.2
Contact with hotplate
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:
- X15.2XXA Contact with hotplate, initial encounter
- X15.2XXD Contact with hotplate, subsequent encounter
- X15.2XXS Contact with hotplate, 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 Contact with hotplate
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 X15 Contact with hot household appliances
Seventh character required
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category X15
Excludes1 - never coded here
- contact with heating appliances (X16)
- contact with powered household appliances (W29.-)
- exposure to controlled fire in building or structure due to household appliance (X02.8)
- exposure to household appliances electrical current (W86.0)
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.
- Immersion
- Submersion
- Stab, stabbing
- Sinking > watercraft
- Overturning > watercraft
- Trapped > between objects
- Contact > with > hot > liquid NEC
- Contact > with > marine > animal > mammal
- Accident > watercraft > causing > drowning
- Contact > with > animal NEC > marine > mammal
- Drowning > resulting from accident to watercraft
- Accident > diving > with > drowning or submersion
- Drowning > due to > jumping into water from watercraft
- Striking against > object > with > drowning or submersion
- Accident > transport > occupant > watercraft NOS > causing drowning
- Drowning > due to > fall overboard > resulting from > accident to watercraft
- Contact > with > hotplate
- Contact > with > hot > plate
- Burn, burned, burning > hotplate
- Contact > with > hot > household appliance > hotplate
- Burn, burned, burning > heat > from appliance > hotplate
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| X15.0 | Contact with hot stove (kitchen) | Not billable |
| X15.1 | Contact with hot toaster | Not billable |
| X15.3 | Contact with hot saucepan or skillet | Not billable |
| X15.8 | Contact with other hot household appliances | Not billable |