T71.2

T71.2: Asphyxiation due to systemic oxygen deficiency due to low oxygen content in ambient air

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

T71.2 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for asphyxiation due to systemic oxygen deficiency due to low oxygen content in ambient air. 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 systemic oxygen deficiency due to low oxygen content in ambient air

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above T71.2

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on T71: Asphyxiation

acute respiratory distress (syndrome) (J80)
anoxia due to high altitude (T70.2)
asphyxia NOS (R09.01)
asphyxia from carbon monoxide (T58.-)
asphyxia from inhalation of food or foreign body (T17.-)
asphyxia from other gases, fumes and vapors (T59.-)
respiratory distress (syndrome) in newborn (P22.-)

Other codes that can never be billed with T71.2

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 T71.2

5 child codes. Green means billable.