W27.4

W27.4: Contact with kitchen utensil

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

W27.4 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for contact with kitchen utensil. 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 W27

A: initial encounter
D: subsequent encounter
S: sequela

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Contact with fork
Contact with ice-pick
Contact with can-opener NOS

Other codes that can never be billed with W27.4

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

W23Caught, crushed, jammed or pinched in or between objects
W29Contact with other powered hand tools and household machinery

Risk adjustment

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

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Contact›with›fork
Contact›with›ice-pick
Contact›with›can›opener
Contact›with›meat›grinder›nonpowered
Contact›with›tool›hand›can opener
Contact›with›tool›hand›fork
Contact›with›tool›hand›ice-pick
Contact›with›tool›hand›kitchen utensil
Contact›with›tool›hand›meat grinder