T80.219: Unspecified infection due to central venous catheter
T80.219 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for unspecified 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.
- Central line-associated infection NOS
- Unspecified infection due to Hickman catheter
- Unspecified infection due to peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC)
- Unspecified infection due to portacath (port-a-cath)
- Unspecified infection due to pulmonary artery catheter
- Unspecified infection due to triple lumen catheter
- Unspecified infection due to umbilical venous catheter
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above T80.219
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›central line-associated
- Infection, infected, infective›due to or resulting from›central venous catheter
- Infection, infected, infective›due to or resulting from›Hickman catheter
- Infection, infected, infective›due to or resulting from›peripherally inserted central catheter(PICC)
- Infection, infected, infective›due to or resulting from›portacath(port-a-cath)
- Infection, infected, infective›due to or resulting from›triple lumen catheter
- Infection, infected, infective›due to or resulting from›umbilical venous catheter
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead T80.219
3 child codes. Green means billable.