T18
T18: Foreign body in alimentary tract
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
T18 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for foreign body in alimentary tract. 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 T18
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Excludes2: not included here, but may coexist
The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.
- foreign body in pharynx (T17.2-)
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Aspiration›food(any type) (into respiratory tract) (with asphyxia, obstruction respiratory tract, suffocation)
- Choked, choking›food(bone) (seed)
- Food in›air passages(with asphyxia, obstruction, or suffocation)
- Food in›alimentary tract causing asphyxia(due to compression of trachea)
- Asphyxia, asphyxiation›by›food(bone) (seed)
- Compression›trachea by›food(lodged in esophagus)
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead T18
8 child codes. Green means billable.