S31.601
S31.601: Unspecified open wound of abdominal wall, left upper quadrant with penetration into peritoneal cavity
Non-billable headerICD-10-CMleft
S31.601 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for unspecified open wound of abdominal wall, left upper quadrant 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 S31.601
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above S31.601
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
- Wound, open›left›upper quadrant›with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- Wound, open›abdomen, abdominal›wall›left›upper quadrant›with penetration into peritoneal cavity
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead S31.601
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- S31.601AUnspecified open wound of abdominal wall, left upper quadrant with penetration into peritoneal cavity, initial encounter
- S31.601DUnspecified open wound of abdominal wall, left upper quadrant with penetration into peritoneal cavity, subsequent encounter
- S31.601SUnspecified open wound of abdominal wall, left upper quadrant with penetration into peritoneal cavity, sequela
Other codes under S31.60
- S31.600Unspecified open wound of abdominal wall, right upper quadrant with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.602Unspecified open wound of abdominal wall, epigastric region with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.603Unspecified open wound of abdominal wall, right lower quadrant with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.604Unspecified open wound of abdominal wall, left lower quadrant with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.605Unspecified open wound of abdominal wall, periumbilic region with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.606Unspecified open wound of abdominal wall, right flank with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.607Unspecified open wound of abdominal wall, left flank with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.609Unspecified open wound of abdominal wall, unspecified quadrant with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.60AUnspecified open wound of abdominal wall, unspecified flank with penetration into peritoneal cavity