T31.7
T31.7 — Burns involving 70-79% of body surface
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
T31.7 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for burns involving 70-79% of body surface. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
T31.7 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 T31.7
8 child codes. Green means billable.
- T31.70Burns involving 70-79% of body surface with 0% to 9% third degree burns
- T31.71Burns involving 70-79% of body surface with 10-19% third degree burns
- T31.72Burns involving 70-79% of body surface with 20-29% third degree burns
- T31.73Burns involving 70-79% of body surface with 30-39% third degree burns
- T31.74Burns involving 70-79% of body surface with 40-49% third degree burns
- T31.75Burns involving 70-79% of body surface with 50-59% third degree burns
- T31.76Burns involving 70-79% of body surface with 60-69% third degree burns
- T31.77Burns involving 70-79% of body surface with 70-79% third degree burns
Related codes at this level
Codes that share T31. If T31.7 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- T31.0Burns involving less than 10% of body surface
- T31.1Burns involving 10-19% of body surface
- T31.2Burns involving 20-29% of body surface
- T31.3Burns involving 30-39% of body surface
- T31.4Burns involving 40-49% of body surface
- T31.5Burns involving 50-59% of body surface
- T31.6Burns involving 60-69% of body surface
- T31.8Burns involving 80-89% of body surface
- T31.9Burns involving 90% or more of body surface
Questions about T31.7
- Is T31.7 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. T31.7 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does T31.7 sit in the tabular list?
- Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88), in the block Burns and corrosions of multiple and unspecified body regions (T30-T32).