X12
X12: Contact with other hot fluids
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
X12 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for contact with other hot fluids. 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 X12
- 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.
- hot (liquid) metals (X18)
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Contact with water heated on stove
Other codes that can never be billed with X12
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- X11Contact with hot tap-water
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Burn, burned, burning›liquid NEC(boiling) (hot)
- Scald, scalding›liquid NEC(boiling) (hot)
- Burn, burned, burning›hot›fluid NEC
- Burn, burned, burning›hot›liquid NEC
- Burn, burned, burning›substance NEC›boiling
- Contact›with›boiling water
- Contact›with›hot›fluids NEC
- Contact›with›hot›liquid NEC
- Contact›with›hot›tap-water›heated on stove
- Contact›with›hot›water›boiling
- Contact›with›hot›water›heated on stove
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead X12
3 child codes. Green means billable.