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T75.4

T75.4: Electrocution

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

T75.4 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for electrocution. 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 T75

A
initial encounter
D
subsequent encounter
S
sequela

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

  • Shock from electric current
  • Shock from electroshock gun (taser)

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above T75.4

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on T75: Other and unspecified effects of other external causes

  • adverse effects NEC (T78.-)

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above T75.4

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on T75: Other and unspecified effects of other external causes

Other codes that can never be billed with T75.4

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

  • R57Shock, not elsewhere classified
  • T79.4Traumatic shock
  • T79.4XXATraumatic shock, initial encounter
  • T79.4XXDTraumatic shock, subsequent encounter
  • T79.4XXSTraumatic shock, sequela
  • T81.1Postprocedural shock

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

  • Electric current, electricity, effects(concussion) (fatal) (nonfatal) (shock)
  • Electrocution
  • Effect, adverse›electric current, electricity(shock)
  • Electrocution›from electroshock gun(taser)
  • Shock›electric
  • Shock›from electroshock gun(taser)
  • Shock›taser gun(taser)

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead T75.4

3 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under T75

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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