W45.0

W45.0: Nail entering through skin

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

W45.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for nail entering through skin. 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 W45

A: initial encounter
D: subsequent encounter
S: sequela

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above W45.0

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

Written on W45: Foreign body or object entering through skin

contact with hand tools (nonpowered) (powered) (W27-W29)
contact with other sharp object(s) (W26.-)
contact with sharp glass (W25.-)
struck by objects (W20-W22)

Risk adjustment

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

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Nail›contact with
Nail›embedded in skin
Contact›with›nail
Foreign body›entering through›skin›nail

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead W45.0

3 child codes. Green means billable.