S80.25

S80.25: Superficial foreign body of knee

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

S80.25 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for superficial foreign body of knee. 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 S80

A: initial encounter
D: subsequent encounter
S: sequela

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Splinter in the knee

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above S80.25

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on S80: Superficial injury of knee and lower leg

superficial injury of ankle and foot (S90.-)

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 S80.25

3 child codes. Green means billable.