T70.1
T70.1: Sinus barotrauma
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
T70.1 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for sinus barotrauma. 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 T70
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Aerosinusitis
- Effects of change in ambient atmospheric pressure on sinuses
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Aerosinusitis
- Barosinusitis
- Barotrauma›sinus
- Sinusitis›due to high altitude
- Effect, adverse›high altitude NEC›on›sinuses
- High›altitude effects›on›sinuses
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead T70.1
3 child codes. Green means billable.