S31.10A
S31.10A: Unspecified open wound of abdominal wall, unspecified flank without penetration into peritoneal cavity
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
S31.10A is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for unspecified open wound of abdominal wall, unspecified flank without penetration into peritoneal cavity. 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 S31
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Open wound of abdominal wall of flank NOS without penetration into peritoneal cavity
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above S31.10A
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above S31.10A
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Wound, open›flank
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead S31.10A
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- S31.10AAUnspecified open wound of abdominal wall, unspecified flank without penetration into peritoneal cavity, initial encounter
- S31.10ADUnspecified open wound of abdominal wall, unspecified flank without penetration into peritoneal cavity, subsequent encounter
- S31.10ASUnspecified open wound of abdominal wall, unspecified flank without penetration into peritoneal cavity, sequela
Other codes under S31.10
- S31.100Unspecified open wound of abdominal wall, right upper quadrant without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.101Unspecified open wound of abdominal wall, left upper quadrant without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.102Unspecified open wound of abdominal wall, epigastric region without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.103Unspecified open wound of abdominal wall, right lower quadrant without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.104Unspecified open wound of abdominal wall, left lower quadrant without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.105Unspecified open wound of abdominal wall, periumbilic region without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.106Unspecified open wound of abdominal wall, right flank without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.107Unspecified open wound of abdominal wall, left flank without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.109Unspecified open wound of abdominal wall, unspecified quadrant without penetration into peritoneal cavity