S70.259A

The ICD-10-CM code for superficial foreign body, unspecified hip, initial encounter is S70.259A. The full clinical description is "Superficial foreign body, unspecified hip, initial encounter". S70.259A is a billable/specific code that can be used on insurance claims and medical billing.

ICD-10-CM code S70.259A represents “Superficial foreign body, unspecified hip, initial encounter”. It is classified under Chapter 19: Injury, Poisoning and Certain Other Consequences of External Causes and is a billable/specific code that can be used on a claim.

Yes, S70.259A is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code and can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a medical claim.

S70.259A is in Chapter 19: Injury, Poisoning and Certain Other Consequences of External Causes (codes S00-T88).

S70.259A is linked to 1 UMLS Concept Unique Identifier: C2856203. The UMLS (Unified Medical Language System) integrates multiple biomedical vocabularies maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health) codes describe how conditions like superficial foreign body, unspecified hip, initial encounter affect a person's functioning: body functions, activities, participation, and environmental factors. AutoICD provides ICF Core Sets for 12+ conditions and can map clinical text to ICF categories automatically. Browse the ICF directory to explore functioning codes.

There is no direct ICD-11 mapping available for S70.259A in the WHO crosswalk tables. This may mean the concept is classified differently in ICD-11. Use the ICD-10 to ICD-11 converter to search for related codes.