T19 — Foreign body in genitourinary tract
T19 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for foreign body in genitourinary 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 T19
- 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.
Other codes that can never be billed with T19
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at T19. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading T19 alone.
- Z18Retained foreign body fragments
Risk adjustment
T19 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Code to one of these instead T19
7 child codes. Green means billable.
Questions about T19
- Is T19 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. T19 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does T19 sit in the tabular list?
- Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88), in the block Effects of foreign body entering through natural orifice (T15-T19).