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ICD-10-CM Code T52.2
Toxic effects of homologues of benzene

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 T52.2 is a non-billable code. To code a diagnosis of this type, you must use one of the one child codes of T52.2 that describes the diagnosis 'toxic effects of homologues of benzene' in more detail.


The ICD code T52 is used to code Intoxicative inhalant

Intoxicative inhalants are a broad range of intoxicative drugs whose volatile vapors or gases are taken in via the nose and trachea. They are taken by room temperature volatilization or from a pressurized container (e.g., nitrous oxide), and do not include drugs that are sniffed after burning or heating. For example, amyl nitrite and toluene are considered inhalants, but tobacco, cannabis, and crack are not, even though the latter are also inhaled (as smoke).

Specialty: Emergency Medicine
ICD 9 Code: 981.982
Source: Wikipedia

Coding Notes for T52.2 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.
Toxic effects of toluene [methylbenzene]
Toxic effects of xylene [dimethylbenzene]

Related Concepts SNOMET-CT

  • Poisoning by hexylresorcinol (disorder)
  • Toxic effect of homologues of benzene (disorder)

Parent Code: T52 - Toxic effect of organic solvents

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