T71
T71: Asphyxiation
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
T71 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for asphyxiation. 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 T71
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Excludes1: never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Mechanical suffocation
- Traumatic suffocation
Other codes that can never be billed with T71
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- R09.0Asphyxia and hypoxemia
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Suffocation(accidental) (by external means) (by pressure) (mechanical)
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead T71
3 child codes. Green means billable.