T85.73
T85.73 — Infection and inflammatory reaction due to nervous system devices, implants and graft
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
T85.73 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for infection and inflammatory reaction due to nervous system devices, implants and graft. 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
Risk adjustment
T85.73 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.
Code to one of these instead T85.73
7 child codes. Green means billable.
- T85.730Infection and inflammatory reaction due to ventricular intracranial (communicating) shunt
- T85.731Infection and inflammatory reaction due to implanted electronic neurostimulator of brain, electrode (lead)
- T85.732Infection and inflammatory reaction due to implanted electronic neurostimulator of peripheral nerve, electrode (lead)
- T85.733Infection and inflammatory reaction due to implanted electronic neurostimulator of spinal cord, electrode (lead)
- T85.734Infection and inflammatory reaction due to implanted electronic neurostimulator, generator
- T85.735Infection and inflammatory reaction due to cranial or spinal infusion catheter
- T85.738Infection and inflammatory reaction due to other nervous system device, implant or graft
Related codes at this level
Codes that share T85.7. If T85.73 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about T85.73
- Is T85.73 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. T85.73 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does T85.73 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).