S31.65
S31.65: Open bite of abdominal wall with penetration into peritoneal cavity
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
S31.65 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for open bite 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: never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above S31.65
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above S31.65
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 S31.65
10 child codes. Green means billable.
- S31.650Open bite of abdominal wall, right upper quadrant with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.651Open bite of abdominal wall, left upper quadrant with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.652Open bite of abdominal wall, epigastric region with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.653Open bite of abdominal wall, right lower quadrant with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.654Open bite of abdominal wall, left lower quadrant with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.655Open bite of abdominal wall, periumbilic region with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.656Open bite of abdominal wall, right flank with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.657Open bite of abdominal wall, left flank with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.659Open bite of abdominal wall, unspecified quadrant with penetration into peritoneal cavity
- S31.65AOpen bite of abdominal wall, unspecified flank with penetration into peritoneal cavity
Other codes under S31.6
- 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