W60
W60: Contact with nonvenomous plant thorns and spines and sharp leaves
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
W60 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for contact with nonvenomous plant thorns and spines and sharp leaves. 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 code W60
- 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 venomous plants (T63.7-)
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Contact›with›plant thorns, spines, sharp leaves or other mechanisms
- Puncture, puncturing›by›plant thorns, spines, sharp leaves or other mechanisms NEC
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead W60
3 child codes. Green means billable.