T36-T50
Poisoning by, adverse effects of and underdosing of drugs, medicaments and biological substances
Poisoning by, adverse effects of and underdosing of drugs, medicaments and biological substances (T36-T50) is a block within ICD-10-CM Chapter 19: Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes. It holds 15 categories.
Includes
- adverse effect of correct substance properly administered
- poisoning by overdose of substance
- poisoning by wrong substance given or taken in error
- underdosing by (inadvertently) (deliberately) taking less substance than prescribed or instructed
Excludes1
Not coded here. An Excludes1 code should never be reported at the same time as the code above it.
- toxic reaction to local anesthesia in pregnancy (O29.3-)
Excludes2
Not included here. The condition is not part of this code, but a patient may have both, and both codes may be reported together.
- abuse and dependence of psychoactive substances (F10-F19)
- abuse of non-dependence-producing substances (F55.-)
- immunodeficiency due to drugs (D84.821)
- drug reaction and poisoning affecting newborn (P00-P96)
- pathological drug intoxication (inebriation) (F10-F19)
Code first
Sequence the underlying condition before this code.
- , for adverse effects, the nature of the adverse effect, such as:
- adverse effect NOS (T88.7)
- aspirin gastritis (K29.-)
- blood disorders (D56-D76)
- contact dermatitis (L23-L25)
- dermatitis due to substances taken internally (L27.-)
- nephropathy (N14.0-N14.2)
Use additional code
Report an additional code to identify the associated condition.
- code(s) to specify:
- manifestations of poisoning
- underdosing or failure in dosage during medical and surgical care (Y63.6, Y63.8-Y63.9)
- underdosing of medication regimen (Z91.12-, Z91.13-)
Notes
- The drug giving rise to the adverse effect should be identified by use of codes from categories T36-T50 with fifth or sixth character 5.
Categories in T36-T50
- T36Systemic antibioticscategory
- T37Other systemic anti-infectives and antiparasiticscategory
- T38Hormones and their synthetic substitutes and antag, NECcategory
- T39Nonopioid analgesics, antipyretics and antirheumaticscategory
- T40Narcotics and psychodyslepticscategory
- T41Anesthetics and therapeutic gasescategory
- T42Antiepileptic, sedative- hypnotic and antiparkinsonism drugscategory
- T43Psychotropic drugs, not elsewhere classifiedcategory
- T44Drugs primarily affecting the autonomic nervous systemcategory
- T45Primarily systemic and hematological agents, NECcategory
- T46Agents primarily affecting the cardiovascular systemcategory
- T47Agents primarily affecting the gastrointestinal systemcategory
- T48Agents prim act on smooth and skeletal musc and the resp syscategory
- T49Topical skin/eye/ENT/dental drugscategory
- T50Diuretics and oth and unsp drug/meds/biol substcategory
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.