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T18.128A
Billable

Food in esophagus causing other injury (initial encounter)

Chapter 19: Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes

Billable Code

T18.128A is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.

Referenced in Diagnoses

Conditions that use this ICD-10 code in their documentation

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food bolus
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Esophageal Food Bolus Impaction

Additional Information from Parent Codes

The following information may apply to this code from its parent codes in the ICD-10 hierarchy. This information is important for proper coding and classification.

Inclusion Terms

2 items

From T18.12:

  • Bones in esophagus
  • Seeds in esophagus

Excludes1

2 items

From S00-T88:

Excludes2

2 items

From T18:

  • foreign body in pharynx (T17.2-)

From T18.1:

  • foreign body in respiratory tract (T17.-)

Use Additional Code

1 item

From S00-T88:

  • code to identify any retained foreign body, if applicable (Z18.-)

7th Character Notes

4 items

From T18:

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category T18
  • A: initial encounter
  • D: subsequent encounter
  • S: sequela
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