T70.3
T70.3: Caisson disease [decompression sickness]
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
T70.3 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for caisson disease [decompression sickness]. 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.
- Compressed-air disease
- Diver's palsy or paralysis
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Aerobullosis
- Aeroembolism
- Bends
- Caisson disease
- Chokes(resulting from bends)
- Compressed air disease
- Decompression sickness
- Diver's palsy, paralysis or squeeze
- Dysbarism
- Squeeze, diver's
- Air›compressed, disease
- Arthralgia›in caisson disease
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead T70.3
3 child codes. Green means billable.