X18

X18: Contact with other hot metals

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

X18 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for contact with other hot metals. 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 X18

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 liquid metal

Other codes that can never be billed with X18

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

X12Contact with other hot fluids
X12.XXXAContact with other hot fluids, initial encounter
X12.XXXDContact with other hot fluids, subsequent encounter
X12.XXXSContact with other hot fluids, sequela

Risk adjustment

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

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Burn, burned, burning›metal NEC(hot) (liquid) (molten)
Scald, scalding›metal NEC(molten) (liquid) (hot)
Burn, burned, burning›hot›metal NEC(molten) (liquid)
Burn, burned, burning›substance NEC›molten(metal)
Contact›with›metal, hot NEC(liquid) (molten)
Contact›with›hot›metal NEC(molten) (liquid)
Contact›with›substance, hot NEC›molten(metal)

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead X18

3 child codes. Green means billable.