T81.59Other complications of foreign body accidentally left in body following procedure

T81.59 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for other complications of foreign body accidentally left in body following procedure. It belongs to category T81 (complications of procedures, not elsewhere classified), block T80-T88 (complications of surgical and medical care, not elsewhere classified) 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 10 subcodes must be used instead.

Within T81.5, choose T81.59 (Other complications of foreign body accidentally left in body following procedure) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: unspecified complication of foreign body accidentally left in body following procedure (T81.50), adhesions due to foreign body accidentally left in body following procedure (T81.51), obstruction due to foreign body accidentally left in body following procedure (T81.52) and perforation due to foreign body accidentally left in body following procedure (T81.53).

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 T81.59, but may be coded alongside it if the patient has both: obstruction or perforation due to prosthetic devices and implants intentionally left in body (T82.0-T82.5, T83.0-T83.4, T83.7, T84.0-T84.4, T85.0-T85.6).

Use an additional code for adverse effect, if applicable, to identify drug (T36-T50 with fifth or sixth character 5).

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