S05.6
S05.6 — Penetrating wound without foreign body of eyeball
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
S05.6 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for penetrating wound without foreign body of eyeball. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below. This code also requires a 7th character before it is complete.
This code requires a 7th character
The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S05
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Ocular penetration NOS
Risk adjustment
S05.6 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Code to one of these instead S05.6
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share S05. If S05.6 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- S05.0Injury of conjunctiva and corneal abrasion without foreign body
- S05.1Contusion of eyeball and orbital tissues
- S05.2Ocular laceration and rupture with prolapse or loss of intraocular tissue
- S05.3Ocular laceration without prolapse or loss of intraocular tissue
- S05.4Penetrating wound of orbit with or without foreign body
- S05.5Penetrating wound with foreign body of eyeball
- S05.7Avulsion of eye
- S05.8Other injuries of eye and orbit
- S05.9Unspecified injury of eye and orbit
Questions about S05.6
- Is S05.6 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. S05.6 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does S05.6 sit in the tabular list?
- Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88), in the block Injuries to the head (S00-S09).