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
Risk adjustment
T80.212 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 T80.212 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 T80.212.
- 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 to one of these instead T80.212
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share T80.21. If T80.212 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about T80.212
- Is T80.212 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. T80.212 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does T80.212 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).