T80.0 — Air embolism following infusion, transfusion and therapeutic injection
T80.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for air embolism following infusion, transfusion and therapeutic injection. 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 T80
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Other codes that can never be billed with T80.0
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at T80.0. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading T80.0 alone.
Risk adjustment
T80.0 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
How T80.0 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to T80.0.
- Complication›infusion›air embolism
- Complication›transfusion›air embolism
- Air›embolism›following›infusion, therapeutic injection or transfusion
- Embolism›air›following›infusion, therapeutic injection or transfusion
- Embolism›following›infusion, therapeutic injection or transfusion›air
Code to one of these instead T80.0
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share T80. If T80.0 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- T80.1Vascular complications following infusion, transfusion and therapeutic injection
- T80.2Infections following infusion, transfusion and therapeutic injection
- T80.3ABO incompatibility reaction due to transfusion of blood or blood products
- T80.4Rh incompatibility reaction due to transfusion of blood or blood products
- T80.ANon-ABO incompatibility reaction due to transfusion of blood or blood products
- T80.5Anaphylactic reaction due to serum
- T80.6Other serum reactions
- T80.8Other complications following infusion, transfusion and therapeutic injection
- T80.9Unspecified complication following infusion, transfusion and therapeutic injection
Questions about T80.0
- Is T80.0 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. T80.0 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does T80.0 sit in the tabular list?
- Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88), in the block Complications of surgical and medical care, not elsewhere classified (T80-T88).