ICD-10-CM Code T18.1
Foreign body in esophagus
NON-BILLABLE
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ICD-10 from 2011 - 2016
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 Code T18.1 is a non-billable code. To code a diagnosis of this type, you must use one of the four child codes of T18.1 that describes the diagnosis 'foreign body in esophagus' in more detail.
- T18.1 Foreign body in esophagus NON-BILLABLE
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- T18.120 Food in esophagus causing compression of trachea NON-BILLABLE
- T18.128 Food in esophagus causing other injury NON-BILLABLE
The ICD code T18 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)
Coding Notes for T18.1 Info for medical coders on how to properly use this ICD-10 code
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Code Type-2 Excludes:
Type-2 Excludes
Type-2 Excludes means the excluded conditions are different, although they may appear similar. A patient may have both conditions, but one does not include the other. Excludes 2 means "not coded here." - Foreign body in respiratory tract - instead, use code T17.-
Parent Code: T18 - Foreign body in alimentary tract