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ICD-10-CM Code T17.2
Foreign body in pharynx

NON-BILLABLE
Non-Billable Code
Non-Billable means the code is not sufficient justification for admission to an acute care hospital when used a principal diagnosis. Use a child code to capture more detail.
| ICD-10 from 2011 - 2016

ICD Code T17.2 is a non-billable code. To code a diagnosis of this type, you must use one of the four child codes of T17.2 that describes the diagnosis 'foreign body in pharynx' in more detail.


The ICD code T17 is used to code Foreign body

A foreign body or sometimes known as FB (Latin: corpus alienum) is any object originating outside the body. In machinery, it can mean any unwanted intruding object.

Specialty: Emergency Medicine
MeSH Codes: D005547, D005547, D005547, D005547, D005547, D005547, D005547, D005547, D005547, D005547, D005547
ICD 9 Codes: 930, 931, 933, 932, 934, 935, 936, 937, 938, 939, 919.6

Endoscopy image of gastric foreign body (toothbrush)

Source: Wikipedia

Coding Notes for T17.2 Info for medical coders on how to properly use this ICD-10 code

Inclusion Terms:
Inclusion Terms
Inclusion Terms are a list of concepts for which a specific code is used. The list of Inclusion Terms is useful for determining the correct code in some cases, but the list is not necessarily exhaustive.
Foreign body in nasopharynx
Foreign body in throat NOS

Parent Code: T17 - Foreign body in respiratory tract

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Source: http://icd.codes/icd10cm/T172