X30

ICD-10Non-billable category

Exposure to excessive natural heat

Official ICD-10-CM descriptor (FY2026)

Exposure to excessive natural heat

X30 is a category heading, not a billable code. CMS does not accept it on a claim; report one of the more specific codes beneath it.

Inclusion terms

  • Exposure to excessive heat as the cause of sunstroke
  • Exposure to heat NOS

Excludes1

Not coded here. An Excludes1 code should never be reported at the same time as the code above it.

  • excessive heat of man-made origin (W92)
  • exposure to man-made radiation (W89)
  • exposure to sunlight (X32)
  • exposure to tanning bed (W89)

7th character

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to code X30

Permitted 7th characters

Ainitial encounter
Dsubsequent encounter
Ssequela

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Source

ICD-10-CM FY2026. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) / National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), “2026 ICD-10-CM Code Descriptions in Tabular Order (icd10cm_order_2026.txt). Download the original file from cms.gov. Public domain (US Government work). Descriptors, billable flags and instructional notes on this page are reproduced from that file without modification. Krasyn adds no clinical guidance.

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