S20.45
S20.45: Superficial foreign body of back wall of thorax
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
S20.45 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for superficial foreign body of back wall of thorax. 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 S20
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Splinter of back wall of thorax
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 S20.45
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Other codes under S20.4
- S20.40Unspecified superficial injuries of back wall of thorax
- S20.41Abrasion of back wall of thorax
- S20.42Blister (nonthermal) of back wall of thorax
- S20.44External constriction of back wall of thorax
- S20.46Insect bite (nonvenomous) of back wall of thorax
- S20.47Other superficial bite of back wall of thorax