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T81.10

T81.10: Postprocedural shock unspecified

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

T81.10 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for postprocedural shock unspecified. 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 T81

A
initial encounter
D
subsequent encounter
S
sequela

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

  • Collapse NOS during or resulting from a procedure, not elsewhere classified
  • Postprocedural failure of peripheral circulation
  • Postprocedural shock NOS

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above T81.10

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on T81.1: Postprocedural shock

  • anaphylactic shock NOS (T78.2)
  • anaphylactic shock due to correct substance properly administered (T88.6)
  • anaphylactic shock due to serum (T80.5-)
  • electric shock (T75.4)
  • obstetric shock (O75.1)
  • shock due to anesthesia (T88.2)
  • shock following abortion or ectopic or molar pregnancy (O00-O07, O08.3)
  • traumatic shock (T79.4)

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above T81.10

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on T81: Complications of procedures, not elsewhere classified

  • complications following immunization (T88.0-T88.1)
  • complications following infusion, transfusion and therapeutic injection (T80.-)
  • complications of transplanted organs and tissue (T86.-)
  • specified complications classified elsewhere, such as:
  • complication of prosthetic devices, implants and grafts (T82-T85)
  • dermatitis due to drugs and medicaments (L23.3, L24.4, L25.1, L27.0-L27.1)
  • endosseous dental implant failure (M27.6-)
  • floppy iris syndrome (IFIS) (intraoperative) H21.81
  • intraoperative and postprocedural complications of specific body system (D78.-, E36.-, E89.-, G97.3-, G97.4, H59.3-, H59.-, H95.2-, H95.3, I97.4-, I97.5, J95, K91.-, L76.-, M96.-, N99.-)
  • ostomy complications (J95.0-, K94.-, N99.5-)
  • plateau iris syndrome (post-iridectomy) (postprocedural) H21.82
  • poisoning and toxic effects of drugs and chemicals (T36-T65 with fifth or sixth character 1-4)

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

  • Collapse›postoperative
  • Shock›postprocedural(postoperative)
  • Shock›surgical
  • Shock›therapeutic misadventure NEC
  • Surgical›shock
  • Collapse›during or›resulting from a procedure, not elsewhere classified

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead T81.10

3 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under T81.1

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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