T26.21

The ICD-10-CM code for burn with resulting rupture and destruction of right eyeball is T26.21. The full clinical description is "Burn with resulting rupture and destruction of right eyeball". T26.21 is a non-billable header code. Use a more specific child code for billing purposes.

ICD-10-CM code T26.21 represents “Burn with resulting rupture and destruction of right eyeball”. It is classified under Chapter 19: Injury, Poisoning and Certain Other Consequences of External Causes and is a non-billable header code. Use a more specific child code for billing purposes.

No, T26.21 is a non-billable header code. You need to use one of its more specific child codes for billing. There are 3 child codes under T26.21.

T26.21 is in Chapter 19: Injury, Poisoning and Certain Other Consequences of External Causes (codes S00-T88).

T26.21 has Excludes1 notes indicating codes that cannot be used together with it, including: birth trauma (P10-P15); obstetric trauma (O70-O71).

T26.21 has 3 child codes, including: T26.21XA (Burn w resulting rupture and dest of right eyeball, init), T26.21XD (Burn w resulting rupture and dest of right eyeball, subs), T26.21XS (Burn w resulting rupture and dest of right eyeball, sequela).

Yes, when using T26.21, also report: any retained foreign body, if applicable (Z18.-); external cause code to identify the source, place and intent of the burn (X00-X19, X75-X77, X96-X98, Y92).

T26.21 is linked to 1 UMLS Concept Unique Identifier: C2873585. The UMLS (Unified Medical Language System) integrates multiple biomedical vocabularies maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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There is no direct ICD-11 mapping available for T26.21 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.