T17.520A

The ICD-10-CM code for food in bronchus causing asphyxiation, initial encounter is T17.520A. The full clinical description is "Food in bronchus causing asphyxiation, initial encounter". T17.520A is a billable/specific code that can be used on insurance claims and medical billing.

ICD-10-CM code T17.520A represents “Food in bronchus causing asphyxiation, 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, T17.520A is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code and can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a medical claim.

T17.520A is in Chapter 19: Injury, Poisoning and Certain Other Consequences of External Causes (codes S00-T88).

T17.520A is linked to 1 UMLS Concept Unique Identifier: C2870168. 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 food in bronchus causing asphyxiation, 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 T17.520A 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.