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T83.518

T83.518: Infection and inflammatory reaction due to other urinary catheter

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

T83.518 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for infection and inflammatory reaction due to other urinary 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 T83

A
initial encounter
D
subsequent encounter
S
sequela

Inclusion terms

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

  • Infection and inflammatory reaction due to Hopkins catheter
  • Infection and inflammatory reaction due to ileostomy catheter
  • Infection and inflammatory reaction due to urostomy catheter

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above T83.518

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

Written on T83.51: Infection and inflammatory reaction due to urinary catheter

  • complications of stoma of urinary tract (N99.5-)

Written on T83: Complications of genitourinary prosthetic devices, implants and grafts

  • failure and rejection of transplanted organs and tissue (T86.-)

Risk adjustment

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

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

  • Complication›catheter NEC›urinary NEC›infection and inflammation
  • Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory›due to device, implant or graft›catheter›urinary
  • Sepsis›due to device, implant or graft›catheter NEC›urinary
  • Infection, infected, infective›due to or resulting from›device, implant or graft›catheter NEC›urinary
  • Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory›due to device, implant or graft›catheter›urinary›Hopkins
  • Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory›due to device, implant or graft›catheter›urinary›ileostomy
  • Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory›due to device, implant or graft›catheter›urinary›specified NEC
  • Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory›due to device, implant or graft›catheter›urinary›urostomy
  • Infection, infected, infective›due to or resulting from›device, implant or graft›catheter NEC›urinary›Hopkins
  • Infection, infected, infective›due to or resulting from›device, implant or graft›catheter NEC›urinary›ileostomy
  • Infection, infected, infective›due to or resulting from›device, implant or graft›catheter NEC›urinary›specified NEC
  • Infection, infected, infective›due to or resulting from›device, implant or graft›catheter NEC›urinary›urostomy

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead T83.518

3 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under T83.51

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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