T70.29
T70.29: Other effects of high altitude
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
T70.29 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other effects of high altitude. 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.
- Alpine sickness
- Anoxia due to high altitude
- Barotrauma NOS
- Hypobaropathy
- Mountain sickness
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Acosta's disease
- Aerodontalgia
- Alpine sickness
- Andes disease
- Barodontalgia
- Barotrauma
- Hypobarism
- Hypobaropathy
- Monge's disease
- Anoxia›altitude
- Barotrauma›odontalgia
- Disease, diseased›Acosta's
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead T70.29
3 child codes. Green means billable.