T17.928A

Food in respiratory tract, part unspecified causing other injury, initial encounter

Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30

This is the unspecified option. 2 more specific codes sit alongside it. Worth checking whether the documentation supports one of them.

Exclusions 2 never code together

S00-T88chapter

Excludes2

birth trauma (P10-P15)P10-P15
obstetric trauma (O70-O71)O70-O71

Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.

7th character 3

A initial encounter this code

D subsequent encounter

S sequela

Instructional notes 3

S00-T88chapter

Notes

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.

Use additional code

code to identify any retained foreign body, if applicable (Z18.-)Z18.-

Index entries leading here 1 filed at T17.928

The index files this at T17.928. The tabular extends it — laterality, staging, or the 7th character — so these entries lead to the family rather than to T17.928A exactly.

Foreign body
- respiratory tract T17.908
  - causing
    - injury NEC T17.908
      - food (bone) (seed) T17.928

Alongside this code 2 same parent — T17.928

T17.928D Food in resp tract, part unsp causing oth injury, subs T17.928S Food in resp tract, part unsp causing oth injury, sequela

Medications 4

1315 Respiratory Tract Diseases drugs 407 Respiratory Tract Infections drugs 110 Respiratory Tract Neoplasms drugs 3 Respiratory Tract Fistula drugs

MED-RT files conditions by MeSH, which carves the world differently from ICD-10. These are name matches on this code's description, offered as candidates — not as an assertion that they are this code.

Additional references

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Risk adjustment

Maps to no condition category in any loaded model.

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This code

Billable: yes
Code set: FY2026
Parent: T17.928
Block: T07-T88
Siblings: 2

Present FY2024–FY2027.