S31.12A
S31.12A: Laceration with foreign body of abdominal wall unspecified flank without penetration into peritoneal cavity
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
S31.12A is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for laceration with foreign body 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.
- Laceration with foreign body of abdominal wall of flank NOS without penetration into peritoneal cavity
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above S31.12A
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above S31.12A
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
- Laceration›flank›with›foreign body
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead S31.12A
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- S31.12AALaceration with foreign body of abdominal wall unspecified flank without penetration into peritoneal cavity, initial encounter
- S31.12ADLaceration with foreign body of abdominal wall unspecified flank without penetration into peritoneal cavity, subsequent encounter
- S31.12ASLaceration with foreign body of abdominal wall unspecified flank without penetration into peritoneal cavity, sequela
Other codes under S31.12
- S31.120Laceration of abdominal wall with foreign body, right upper quadrant without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.121Laceration of abdominal wall with foreign body, left 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