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T17.1

T17.1: Foreign body in nostril

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

T17.1 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for foreign body in nostril. 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 T17

A
initial encounter
D
subsequent encounter
S
sequela

Inclusion terms

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

  • Foreign body in nose NOS

Other codes that can never be billed with T17.1

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

  • R09.0Asphyxia and hypoxemia
  • T71Asphyxiation

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

  • Bean in nose
  • Foreign body›entering through orifice›nose(passage)
  • Foreign body›entering through orifice›nostril
  • Foreign body›respiratory tract›nose
  • Foreign body›respiratory tract›nostril

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead T17.1

3 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under T17

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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