S31.121 — Laceration of abdominal wall with foreign body, left upper quadrant without penetration into peritoneal cavity
S31.121 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for laceration of abdominal wall with foreign body, left upper quadrant 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
Risk adjustment
S31.121 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 S31.121 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 S31.121.
- Laceration›abdomen, abdominal›wall›left›upper quadrant›with›foreign body
Code to one of these instead S31.121
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- S31.121ALaceration of abdominal wall with foreign body, left upper quadrant without penetration into peritoneal cavity, initial encounter
- S31.121DLaceration of abdominal wall with foreign body, left upper quadrant without penetration into peritoneal cavity, subsequent encounter
- S31.121SLaceration of abdominal wall with foreign body, left upper quadrant without penetration into peritoneal cavity, sequela
Related codes at this level
Codes that share S31.12. If S31.121 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- S31.120Laceration of abdominal wall with foreign body, right upper quadrant without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.122Laceration of abdominal wall with foreign body, epigastric region without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.123Laceration of abdominal wall with foreign body, right lower quadrant without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.124Laceration of abdominal wall with foreign body, left lower quadrant without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.125Laceration of abdominal wall with foreign body, periumbilic region without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.126Laceration with foreign body of abdominal wall, right flank without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.127Laceration with foreign body of abdominal wall, left flank without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.129Laceration of abdominal wall with foreign body, unspecified quadrant without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.12ALaceration with foreign body of abdominal wall unspecified flank without penetration into peritoneal cavity
Questions about S31.121
- Is S31.121 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. S31.121 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does S31.121 sit in the tabular list?
- Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88), in the block Injuries to the abdomen, lower back, lumbar spine, pelvis and external genitals (S30-S39).