S31.142
S31.142: Puncture wound of abdominal wall with foreign body, epigastric region without penetration into peritoneal cavity
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
S31.142 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for puncture wound of abdominal wall with foreign body, epigastric region 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
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above S31.142
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above S31.142
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
- Puncture›abdomen, abdominal›wall›epigastric region›with›foreign body
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead S31.142
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- S31.142APuncture wound of abdominal wall with foreign body, epigastric region without penetration into peritoneal cavity, initial encounter
- S31.142DPuncture wound of abdominal wall with foreign body, epigastric region without penetration into peritoneal cavity, subsequent encounter
- S31.142SPuncture wound of abdominal wall with foreign body, epigastric region without penetration into peritoneal cavity, sequela
Other codes under S31.14
- S31.140Puncture wound of abdominal wall with foreign body, right upper quadrant without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.141Puncture wound of abdominal wall with foreign body, left upper quadrant without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.143Puncture wound of abdominal wall with foreign body, right lower quadrant without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.144Puncture wound of abdominal wall with foreign body, left lower quadrant without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.145Puncture wound of abdominal wall with foreign body, periumbilic region without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.146Puncture wound of abdominal wall with foreign body, right flank without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.147Puncture wound of abdominal wall with foreign body, left flank without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.149Puncture wound of abdominal wall with foreign body, unspecified quadrant without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.14APuncture wound of abdominal wall with foreign body, unspecified flank without penetration into peritoneal cavity