T80.218 — Other infection due to central venous catheter
T80.218 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other 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.
- Other central line-associated infection
- Other infection due to Hickman catheter
- Other infection due to peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC)
- Other infection due to portacath (port-a-cath)
- Other infection due to pulmonary artery catheter
- Other infection due to triple lumen catheter
- Other infection due to umbilical venous catheter
Risk adjustment
T80.218 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 T80.218 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 T80.218.
- Infection, infected, infective›central line-associated›specified NEC
- Infection, infected, infective›due to or resulting from›central venous catheter›specified NEC
- Infection, infected, infective›due to or resulting from›Hickman catheter›specified NEC
- Infection, infected, infective›due to or resulting from›peripherally inserted central catheter›specified NEC
- Infection, infected, infective›due to or resulting from›portacath›specified NEC
- Infection, infected, infective›due to or resulting from›triple lumen catheter›specified NEC
- Infection, infected, infective›due to or resulting from›umbilical venous catheter›specified NEC
Code to one of these instead T80.218
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share T80.21. If T80.218 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about T80.218
- Is T80.218 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. T80.218 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does T80.218 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).