T17.900
T17.900: Unspecified foreign body in respiratory tract, part unspecified causing asphyxiation
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
T17.900 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for unspecified foreign body in respiratory tract, part unspecified causing asphyxiation. 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
Other codes that can never be billed with T17.900
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Foreign body›respiratory tract›causing›asphyxiation
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead T17.900
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- T17.900AUnspecified foreign body in respiratory tract, part unspecified causing asphyxiation, initial encounter
- T17.900DUnspecified foreign body in respiratory tract, part unspecified causing asphyxiation, subsequent encounter
- T17.900SUnspecified foreign body in respiratory tract, part unspecified causing asphyxiation, sequela