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X11.1

X11.1: Contact with running hot water

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

X11.1 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for contact with running hot water. 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 X11

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 hot water running out of hose
  • Contact with hot water running out of tap

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above X11.1

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on X11: Contact with hot tap-water

  • contact with water heated on stove (X12)

Other codes that can never be billed with X11.1

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

  • X11.0Contact with hot water in bath or tub
  • X11.0XXAContact with hot water in bath or tub, initial encounter
  • X11.0XXDContact with hot water in bath or tub, subsequent encounter
  • X11.0XXSContact with hot water in bath or tub, sequela

Risk adjustment

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

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

  • Contact›with›hot›tap-water›running
  • Contact›with›hot›water›running

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead X11.1

3 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under X11

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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