T83.713 — Erosion of implanted urethral bulking agent to surrounding organ or tissue
T83.713 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for erosion of implanted urethral bulking agent to surrounding organ or tissue. 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
Risk adjustment
T83.713 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 T83.713 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 T83.713.
- Complication›prosthetic device or implant›bulking agent›urethral›erosion
Code to one of these instead T83.713
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share T83.71. If T83.713 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- T83.711Erosion of implanted vaginal mesh to surrounding organ or tissue
- T83.712Erosion of implanted urethral mesh to surrounding organ or tissue
- T83.714Erosion of implanted ureteral bulking agent to surrounding organ or tissue
- T83.718Erosion of other implanted mesh to organ or tissue
- T83.719Erosion of other prosthetic materials to surrounding organ or tissue
Questions about T83.713
- Is T83.713 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. T83.713 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does T83.713 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).