S31.63A
S31.63A: Puncture wound of abdominal wall without foreign body, unspecified flank with penetration into peritoneal cavity
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
S31.63A is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for puncture wound of abdominal wall without foreign body, unspecified flank 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
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Puncture wound of abdominal wall without foreign body, flank NOS, with penetration into peritoneal cavity
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above S31.63A
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above S31.63A
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›flank›with›penetration into peritoneal cavity
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead S31.63A
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- S31.63AAPuncture wound of abdominal wall without foreign body, unspecified flank with penetration into peritoneal cavity, initial encounter
- S31.63ADPuncture wound of abdominal wall without foreign body, unspecified flank with penetration into peritoneal cavity, subsequent encounter
- S31.63ASPuncture wound of abdominal wall without foreign body, unspecified flank with penetration into peritoneal cavity, sequela
Other codes under S31.63
- S31.630Puncture wound without foreign body of abdominal wall, right upper quadrant with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.631Puncture wound without foreign body of abdominal wall, left upper quadrant with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.632Puncture wound without foreign body of abdominal wall, epigastric region with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.633Puncture wound without foreign body of abdominal wall, right lower quadrant with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.634Puncture wound without foreign body of abdominal wall, left lower quadrant with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.635Puncture wound without foreign body of abdominal wall, periumbilic region with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.636Puncture wound of abdominal wall without foreign body, right flank with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.637Puncture wound of abdominal wall without foreign body, left flank with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.639Puncture wound without foreign body of abdominal wall, unspecified quadrant with penetration into peritoneal cavity