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T79.5

T79.5: Traumatic anuria

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

T79.5 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for traumatic anuria. 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 T79

A
initial encounter
D
subsequent encounter
S
sequela

Inclusion terms

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

  • Crush syndrome
  • Renal failure following crushing

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above T79.5

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

Written on T79: Certain early complications of trauma, not elsewhere classified

  • acute respiratory distress syndrome (J80)
  • complications occurring during or following medical procedures (T80-T88)
  • complications of surgical and medical care NEC (T80-T88)
  • newborn respiratory distress syndrome (P22.0)

Other codes that can never be billed with T79.5

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

  • N17Acute kidney failure

Risk adjustment

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

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

  • Bywaters' syndrome
  • Anuria›traumatic(following crushing)
  • Compression›syndrome
  • Crush, crushed, crushing›syndrome(complication of trauma)
  • Syndrome›Bywaters'
  • Syndrome›compression
  • Syndrome›crush
  • Shock›kidney›traumatic(following crushing)
  • Failure, failed›renal›following›crushing
  • Necrosis, necrotic›kidney›tubular›traumatic
  • Syndrome›shock›kidney›following crush injury

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead T79.5

3 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under T79

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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