T84.629 — Infection and inflammatory reaction due to internal fixation device of unspecified bone of leg
T84.629 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for infection and inflammatory reaction due to internal fixation device of unspecified bone of leg. 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 T84
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Risk adjustment
T84.629 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 T84.629 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 T84.629.
- Complication›fixation device, internal›infection and inflammation›leg
Code to one of these instead T84.629
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- T84.629AInfection and inflammatory reaction due to internal fixation device of unspecified bone of leg, initial encounter
- T84.629DInfection and inflammatory reaction due to internal fixation device of unspecified bone of leg, subsequent encounter
- T84.629SInfection and inflammatory reaction due to internal fixation device of unspecified bone of leg, sequela
Related codes at this level
Codes that share T84.62. If T84.629 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- T84.620Infection and inflammatory reaction due to internal fixation device of right femur
- T84.621Infection and inflammatory reaction due to internal fixation device of left femur
- T84.622Infection and inflammatory reaction due to internal fixation device of right tibia
- T84.623Infection and inflammatory reaction due to internal fixation device of left tibia
- T84.624Infection and inflammatory reaction due to internal fixation device of right fibula
- T84.625Infection and inflammatory reaction due to internal fixation device of left fibula
Questions about T84.629
- Is T84.629 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. T84.629 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does T84.629 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).