T80.212: Local infection due to central venous catheter
T80.212 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for local infection due to central venous catheter. 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
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Exit or insertion site infection
- Local infection due to Hickman catheter
- Local infection due to peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC)
- Local infection due to portacath (port-a-cath)
- Local infection due to pulmonary artery catheter
- Local infection due to triple lumen catheter
- Local infection due to umbilical venous catheter
- Port or reservoir infection
- Tunnel infection
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above T80.212
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Written on T80.2: Infections following infusion, transfusion and therapeutic injection
Written on T80: Complications following infusion, transfusion and therapeutic injection
- bone marrow transplant rejection (T86.01)
- febrile nonhemolytic transfusion reaction (R50.84)
- fluid overload due to transfusion (E87.71)
- posttransfusion purpura (D69.51)
- transfusion associated circulatory overload (TACO) (E87.71)
- transfusion (red blood cell) associated hemochromatosis (E83.111)
- transfusion related acute lung injury (TRALI) (J95.84)
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Infection, infected, infective›port or reservoir
- Infection, infected, infective›tunnel
- Infection, infected, infective›due to or resulting from›central venous catheter›exit or insertion site
- Infection, infected, infective›due to or resulting from›central venous catheter›localized
- Infection, infected, infective›due to or resulting from›central venous catheter›port or reservoir
- Infection, infected, infective›due to or resulting from›central venous catheter›tunnel
- Infection, infected, infective›due to or resulting from›Hickman catheter›localized
- Infection, infected, infective›due to or resulting from›peripherally inserted central catheter›localized
- Infection, infected, infective›due to or resulting from›portacath›localized
- Infection, infected, infective›due to or resulting from›triple lumen catheter›localized
- Infection, infected, infective›due to or resulting from›umbilical venous catheter›localized
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead T80.212
3 child codes. Green means billable.