S11.15

S11.15: Open bite of thyroid gland

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

S11.15 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for open bite of thyroid gland. 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 S11

A: initial encounter
D: subsequent encounter
S: sequela

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Bite of thyroid gland NOS

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above S11.15

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on S11: Open wound of neck

open fracture of vertebra (S12.- with 7th character B)

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Bite›thyroid
Bite›neck›involving›thyroid gland

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead S11.15

3 child codes. Green means billable.