T71.1
T71.1: Asphyxiation due to mechanical threat to breathing
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
T71.1 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for asphyxiation due to mechanical threat to breathing. 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
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Suffocation due to mechanical threat to breathing
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above T71.1
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Written on T71: Asphyxiation
Other codes that can never be billed with T71.1
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.
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead T71.1
7 child codes. Green means billable.
- T71.11Asphyxiation due to smothering under pillow
- T71.12Asphyxiation due to plastic bag
- T71.13Asphyxiation due to being trapped in bed linens
- T71.14Asphyxiation due to smothering under another person's body (in bed)
- T71.15Asphyxiation due to smothering in furniture
- T71.16Asphyxiation due to hanging
- T71.19Asphyxiation due to mechanical threat to breathing due to other causes