T74.12Child physical abuse, confirmed

T74.12 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for child physical abuse, confirmed. It belongs to category T74 (adult and child abuse, neglect and other maltreatment, confirmed), block T66-T78 (other and unspecified effects of external causes) and chapter 19 (injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes). It is a header code, so it can't be reported by itself; one of its 3 subcodes must be used instead.

Within T74.1 (physical abuse, confirmed), T74.12 is specifically for child physical abuse, confirmed. Related codes cover adult physical abuse, confirmed (T74.11).

Codes in this range require a 7th character: A for initial encounter, D for subsequent encounter and S for sequela. Use placeholder "X" characters to fill any empty positions before the 7th character.

The conditions in its Excludes2 note aren't part of T74.12, but may be coded alongside it if the patient has both: shaken infant syndrome (T74.4).

Use an additional code, if applicable, to identify any associated current injury. Use an additional code for: external cause code to identify perpetrator, if known (Y07.-).

It has been part of ICD-10-CM since the code set took effect on October 1, 2015 and hasn't changed since.