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ICD-10-CM 2027 · T80-T88

Complications of surgical and medical care, not elsewhere classified

Part of chapter 19, injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes.

About T80-T88

Block T80-T88 contains 9 categories and 1,683 billable codes for FY2027. No codes here changed in the FY2027 update. 4 codes are MCCs and 575 are CCs when reported as secondary diagnoses.

T80Complications following infusion, transfusion and therapeutic injection

T81Complications of procedures, not elsewhere classified

T82Complications of cardiac and vascular prosthetic devices, implants and grafts

T83Complications of genitourinary prosthetic devices, implants and grafts

T84Complications of internal orthopedic prosthetic devices, implants and grafts

T85Complications of other internal prosthetic devices, implants and grafts

T86Complications of transplanted organs and tissue

T87Complications peculiar to reattachment and amputation

T88Other complications of surgical and medical care, not elsewhere classified

Block notes

Excludes2
  • any encounters with medical care for postprocedural conditions in which no complications are present, such as:
  • artificial opening status (Z93.-)
  • closure of external stoma (Z43.-)
  • fitting and adjustment of external prosthetic device (Z44.-)
  • burns and corrosions from local applications and irradiation (T20-T32)
  • complications of surgical procedures during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
  • mechanical complication of respirator [ventilator] (J95.850)
  • poisoning and toxic effects of drugs and chemicals (T36-T65 with fifth or sixth character 1-4 or 6)
  • postprocedural fever (R50.82)
  • specified complications classified elsewhere, such as:
  • cerebrospinal fluid leak from spinal puncture (G97.0)
  • colostomy malfunction (K94.0-)
  • disorders of fluid and electrolyte imbalance (E86-E87)
  • functional disturbances following cardiac surgery (I97.0-I97.1)
  • intraoperative and postprocedural complications of specified body systems (D78.-, E36.-, E89.-, G97.3-, G97.4, H59.3-, H59.-, H95.2-, H95.3, I97.4-, I97.5, J95.6-, J95.7, K91.6-, L76.-, M96.-, N99.-)
  • ostomy complications (J95.0-, K94.-, N99.5-)
  • postgastric surgery syndromes (K91.1)
  • postlaminectomy syndrome NEC (M96.1)
  • postmastectomy lymphedema syndrome (I97.2)
  • postsurgical blind-loop syndrome (K91.2)
  • ventilator associated pneumonia (J95.851)
Use additional code
  • code for adverse effect, if applicable, to identify drug (T36-T50 with fifth or sixth character 5)
  • code(s) to identify the specified condition resulting from the complication
  • code to identify devices involved and details of circumstances (Y62-Y82)