ICD-10-CM code "T16": Foreign body in ear (2024)

Overview

ICD-10 CodeT16
DescriptionForeign body in ear
Hierarchy
  1. Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
  2. Effects of foreign body entering through natural orifice (T15-T19)
  3. Foreign body in ear (T16)
Billable statusNon billable code

Excludes

  1. Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)

    Type 1birth trauma (P10-P15)

    Type 1obstetric trauma (O70-O71)

  2. Effects of foreign body entering through natural orifice (T15-T19)

    Type 2foreign body accidentally left in operation wound (T81.5-)

    Type 2foreign body in penetrating wound - See open wound by body region

    Type 2residual foreign body in soft tissue (M79.5)

    Type 2splinter, without open wound - See superficial injury by body region

  3. Foreign body in ear (T16)

Includes

  1. Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
  2. Effects of foreign body entering through natural orifice (T15-T19)
  3. Foreign body in ear (T16)

    Includesforeign body in auditory canal

Subcategories