T80-T88
Complications of surgical and medical care, not elsewhere classified
Complications of surgical and medical care, not elsewhere classified (T80-T88) is a block within ICD-10-CM Chapter 19: Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes. It holds 9 categories.
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.
- 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
Report an additional code to identify the associated condition.
- 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)
Categories in T80-T88
- T80Comp following infusion, transfusion and theraputc injectioncategory
- T81Complications of procedures, not elsewhere classifiedcategory
- T82Complications of cardiac and vascular prosth dev/grftcategory
- T83Complications of genitourinary prosth dev/grftcategory
- T84Complications of internal orthopedic prosth dev/grftcategory
- T85Complications of internal prosth dev/grftcategory
- T86Complications of transplanted organs and tissuecategory
- T87Complications peculiar to reattachment and amputationcategory
- T88Oth complications of surgical and medical care, NECcategory
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.