S31.15: Open bite of abdominal wall without penetration into peritoneal cavity
S31.15 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for open bite of abdominal wall 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: never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
- superficial bite of abdominal wall (S30.871)
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Bite of abdominal wall NOS
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above S31.15
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above S31.15
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Other codes that can never be billed with S31.15
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- S30.87Other superficial bite of abdomen, lower back, pelvis and external genitals
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 S31.15
10 child codes. Green means billable.
- S31.150Open bite of abdominal wall, right upper quadrant without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.151Open bite of abdominal wall, left upper quadrant without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.152Open bite of abdominal wall, epigastric region without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.153Open bite of abdominal wall, right lower quadrant without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.154Open bite of abdominal wall, left lower quadrant without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.155Open bite of abdominal wall, periumbilic region without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.156Open bite of abdominal wall, right flank without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.157Open bite of abdominal wall, left flank without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.159Open bite of abdominal wall, unspecified quadrant without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.15AOpen bite of abdominal wall, unspecified flank without penetration into peritoneal cavity
Other codes under S31.1
- S31.10Unspecified open wound of abdominal wall without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.11Laceration without foreign body of abdominal wall without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.12Laceration with foreign body of abdominal wall without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.13Puncture wound of abdominal wall without foreign body without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.14Puncture wound of abdominal wall with foreign body without penetration into peritoneal cavity