T85.612

T85.612: Breakdown (mechanical) of permanent sutures

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

T85.612 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for breakdown (mechanical) of permanent sutures. 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 T85

A: initial encounter
D: subsequent encounter
S: sequela

Excludes1: never code together

These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.

mechanical complication of permanent (wire) suture used in bone repair (T84.1-T84.2)

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above T85.612

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

Written on T85: Complications of other internal prosthetic devices, implants and grafts

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

Other codes that can never be billed with T85.612

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

T81.3Disruption of wound, not elsewhere classified

Risk adjustment

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

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Breakdown›device, graft or implant›sutures, permanent
Complication›suture, permanent NEC›mechanical›breakdown
Complication›suture, permanent NEC›mechanical›malfunction

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead T85.612

3 child codes. Green means billable.