T79.A9XA - Traumatic compartment syndrome of other sites, initial encounter
ICD-10-CM Chapter 19: Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes · T79 Certain early complications of trauma (T79) · Subcategory of T79.A9 · FY2027
7th character A: initial encounter
Coding Guidance
7th character A: initial encounter.
Includes, Excludes and Coding Notes
Mutually exclusive: these conditions are never reported together with this code.
- fibromyalgia (M79.7)
- nontraumatic compartment syndrome (M79.A-)
Not part of this code; report both codes when the patient has both conditions.
- traumatic ischemic infarction of muscle (T79.6)
Not part of this code; report both codes when the patient has both conditions.
- acute respiratory distress syndrome (J80)
- complications occurring during or following medical procedures (T80-T88)
- complications of surgical and medical care NEC (T80-T88)
- newborn respiratory distress syndrome (P22.0)
Not part of this code; report both codes when the patient has both conditions.
- birth trauma (P10-P15)
- obstetric trauma (O70-O71)
Add a secondary code to identify the associated condition or cause when it is documented.
- code to identify any retained foreign body, if applicable (Z18.-)
Instructional notes from the ICD-10-CM tabular list.
- Use secondary code(s) from Chapter 20, External causes of morbidity, to indicate cause of injury. Codes within the T section that include the external cause do not require an additional external cause code
- The chapter uses the S-section for coding different types of injuries related to single body regions and the T-section to cover injuries to unspecified body regions as well as poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes.
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