X15
X15: Contact with hot household appliances
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
X15 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for contact with hot household appliances. 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 X15
- 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.
Other codes that can never be billed with X15
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- W29Contact with other powered hand tools and household machinery
- X17Contact with hot engines, machinery and tools
- X17.XXXAContact with hot engines, machinery and tools, initial encounter
- X17.XXXDContact with hot engines, machinery and tools, subsequent encounter
- X17.XXXSContact with hot engines, machinery and tools, sequela
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead X15
5 child codes. Green means billable.