T22.70
T22.70: Corrosion of third degree of shoulder and upper limb, except wrist and hand, unspecified site
Non-billable headerICD-10-CMunspecified
T22.70 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for corrosion of third degree of shoulder and upper limb, except wrist and hand, unspecified site. 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 T22
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Corrosion›upper limb›third degree
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead T22.70
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- T22.70XACorrosion of third degree of shoulder and upper limb, except wrist and hand, unspecified site, initial encounter
- T22.70XDCorrosion of third degree of shoulder and upper limb, except wrist and hand, unspecified site, subsequent encounter
- T22.70XSCorrosion of third degree of shoulder and upper limb, except wrist and hand, unspecified site, sequela
Other codes under T22.7
- T22.71Corrosion of third degree of forearm
- T22.72Corrosion of third degree of elbow
- T22.73Corrosion of third degree of upper arm
- T22.74Corrosion of third degree of axilla
- T22.75Corrosion of third degree of shoulder
- T22.76Corrosion of third degree of scapular region
- T22.79Corrosion of third degree of multiple sites of shoulder and upper limb, except wrist and hand