S01.431 — Puncture wound without foreign body of right cheek and temporomandibular area
S01.431 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for puncture wound without foreign body of right cheek and temporomandibular 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 S01
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Risk adjustment
S01.431 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
How S01.431 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to S01.431.
- Puncture›cheek›right
Code to one of these instead S01.431
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- S01.431APuncture wound without foreign body of right cheek and temporomandibular area, initial encounter
- S01.431DPuncture wound without foreign body of right cheek and temporomandibular area, subsequent encounter
- S01.431SPuncture wound without foreign body of right cheek and temporomandibular area, sequela
Related codes at this level
Codes that share S01.43. If S01.431 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about S01.431
- Is S01.431 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. S01.431 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does S01.431 sit in the tabular list?
- Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88), in the block Injuries to the head (S00-S09).