S31.610 — Laceration without foreign body of abdominal wall, right upper quadrant with penetration into peritoneal cavity
S31.610 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for laceration without foreign body of abdominal wall, right 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
Risk adjustment
S31.610 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
How S31.610 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to S31.610.
- Laceration›abdomen, abdominal›wall›right›upper quadrant›with›penetration into peritoneal cavity
Code to one of these instead S31.610
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- S31.610ALaceration without foreign body of abdominal wall, right upper quadrant with penetration into peritoneal cavity, initial encounter
- S31.610DLaceration without foreign body of abdominal wall, right upper quadrant with penetration into peritoneal cavity, subsequent encounter
- S31.610SLaceration without foreign body of abdominal wall, right upper quadrant with penetration into peritoneal cavity, sequela
Related codes at this level
Codes that share S31.61. If S31.610 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- S31.611Laceration without foreign body of abdominal wall, left upper quadrant with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.612Laceration without foreign body of abdominal wall, epigastric region with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.613Laceration without foreign body of abdominal wall, right lower quadrant with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.614Laceration without foreign body of abdominal wall, left lower quadrant with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.615Laceration without foreign body of abdominal wall, periumbilic region with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.616Laceration without foreign body of abdominal wall, right flank with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.617Laceration without foreign body of abdominal wall, left flank with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.619Laceration without foreign body of abdominal wall, unspecified quadrant with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.61ALaceration without foreign body of abdominal wall, unspecified flank with penetration into peritoneal cavity
Questions about S31.610
- Is S31.610 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. S31.610 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does S31.610 sit in the tabular list?
- Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88), in the block Injuries to the abdomen, lower back, lumbar spine, pelvis and external genitals (S30-S39).