S31.6
S31.6: Open wound of abdominal wall with penetration into peritoneal cavity
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
S31.6 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for open wound of abdominal wall with 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 S31.6
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above S31.6
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.
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead S31.6
6 child codes. Green means billable.
- S31.60Unspecified open wound of abdominal wall with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.61Laceration without foreign body of abdominal wall with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.62Laceration with foreign body of abdominal wall with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.63Puncture wound without foreign body of abdominal wall with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.64Puncture wound with foreign body of abdominal wall with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.65Open bite of abdominal wall with penetration into peritoneal cavity
Other codes under S31
- S31.0Open wound of lower back and pelvis
- S31.1Open wound of abdominal wall without penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.2Open wound of penis
- S31.3Open wound of scrotum and testes
- S31.4Open wound of vagina and vulva
- S31.5Open wound of unspecified external genital organs
- S31.8Open wound of other parts of abdomen, lower back and pelvis