T18.120

T18.120: Food in esophagus causing compression of trachea

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

T18.120 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for food in esophagus causing compression of trachea. 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

Inclusion terms

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

Food in esophagus causing obstruction of respiration

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above T18.120

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

Written on T18.1: Foreign body in esophagus

foreign body in respiratory tract (T17.-)

Written on T18: Foreign body in alimentary tract

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

Interruption of respiration›food(lodged in esophagus)
Foreign body›esophagus›causing›tracheal compression›food(bone) (seed)

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead T18.120

3 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under T18.12

T18.128Food in esophagus causing other injury