X19

X19: Contact with other heat and hot substances

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

X19 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for contact with other heat and hot substances. 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 X19

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.

objects that are not normally hot, e.g., an object made hot by a house fire (X00-X08)

Risk adjustment

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

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Scald, scalding(accidental) (by) (from) (in)
Burn, burned, burning›object NEC(hot)
Burn, burned, burning›substance NEC(hot)
Burn, burned, burning›hot›object NEC(not producing fire or flames)
Burn, burned, burning›hot›substance NEC
Contact›with›heat NEC
Contact›with›substance, hot NEC
Contact›with›hot›object NEC(not producing fire or flames)
Contact›with›hot›substance NEC
Contact›with›object NEC›hot NEC
Contact›with›hot›household appliance›object NEC

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead X19

3 child codes. Green means billable.