S05.51
S05.51: Penetrating wound with foreign body of right eyeball
Non-billable headerICD-10-CMright
S05.51 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for penetrating wound with foreign body of right eyeball. 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 S05
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above S05.51
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Written on S05.5: Penetrating wound with foreign body of eyeball
Other codes that can never be billed with S05.51
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
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 S05.51
3 child codes. Green means billable.