S81.001 is the authoritative medical code for Unspecified open wound, right knee. This classification is used in medical billing and clinical recording to specify the clinical criteria for unspecified open wound, right knee (ICD-10-CM S81.001), ensuring healthcare documentation aligns with 2026 federal coding standards.
Billing Status: NO. This is a clinician non-billable / parent hierarchy grouping in the ICD-10-CM system.
Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for S81.001 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.
Conditions that can never be reported with this code; the two are mutually exclusive.
Conditions not covered by this code, but which may be reported alongside it when both are present.
Additional codes that may be required to fully describe the encounter.
No. S81.001 (Unspecified open wound, right knee) is a non-billable ICD-10-CM category code. A more specific billable subcode must be selected based on clinical documentation.
Yes. The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S81.
Per Excludes1 instructions, S81.001 must not be reported with: open fracture of knee and lower leg (S82.-); traumatic amputation of lower leg (S88.-).
Per Excludes2 instructions, S81.001 and the following may both be reported when both are present: open wound of ankle and foot (S91.-); burns and corrosions (T20-T32); frostbite (T33-T34); injuries of ankle and foot, except fracture of ankle and malleolus (S90-S99).
Official ICD-10-CM classifications in the same code family as S81.001, with their registry titles.
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