S00.25: Superficial foreign body of eyelid and periocular area
S00.25 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for superficial foreign body of eyelid and periocular area. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below. This code also requires a 7th character before it is complete.
This code requires a 7th character
The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S00
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Excludes2: not included here, but may coexist
The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.
- retained foreign body in eyelid (H02.81-)
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Splinter of eyelid and periocular area
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above S00.25
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above S00.25
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Other codes that can never be billed with S00.25
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- H02.81Retained foreign body in eyelid
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead S00.25
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Other codes under S00.2
- S00.20Unspecified superficial injury of eyelid and periocular area
- S00.21Abrasion of eyelid and periocular area
- S00.22Blister (nonthermal) of eyelid and periocular area
- S00.24External constriction of eyelid and periocular area
- S00.26Insect bite (nonvenomous) of eyelid and periocular area
- S00.27Other superficial bite of eyelid and periocular area