W26.0

W26.0: Contact with knife

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

W26.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for contact with knife. 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 W26

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.

contact with electric knife (W29.1)

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above W26.0

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

Written on W26: Contact with other sharp objects

sharp object(s) embedded in skin (W45.-)

Risk adjustment

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

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Contact›with›knife

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead W26.0

3 child codes. Green means billable.