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T87.5 ICD-10-CM Code: Necrosis of amputation stump

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Billing Status: NO. This is a non-billable ICD-10-CM code: report a more specific billable code beneath it.

Coding at a Glance

Tabular directives
21 Excludes2 · 3 use-additional codes

Not billable · FY2027A non-billable heading in the tabular list: report a more specific code beneath it.

What you need to know

Source: CMS/NCHS Official ICD-10-CM tabular notes, quoted. From the CMS/NCHS tabular list for the release in force. A note the category or block publishes applies to this code too; the Instructions section marks which is which.

Use additional codeReport with this code when documented
  • 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)
Excludes2Not included here; 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.-)

+17 more in Instructions

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Read off the official notes above and this code’s own position in the tabular list. Which to report is a documentation question; Compare shows the two side by side.

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Coding instructions

Official Tabular Instructional Notes: the inclusion, exclusion and sequencing notes published for T87.5 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list, quoted as published.

Source: CMS/CDC — ICD-10-CM Tabular ListRelease: FY2027Effective: October 1, 2026

Trace:FY2027 changesChange historyRelease, file and checksum

Notes without a marker are published on T87.5 itself; “inherited from” names the category or block whose note applies here.

Excludes2 — Not Included Here

Conditions not covered by this code, but which may be reported alongside it when both are present.

Use Additional Code

Supplementary codes the tabular list directs you to add.

  • Use additional code for adverse effect, if applicable, to identify drug (T36-T50 with fifth or sixth character 5)
  • Use additional code(s) to identify the specified condition resulting from the complication
  • Use additional code to identify devices involved and details of circumstances (Y62-Y82)

Source: inherited from T80-T88

Coder workflow for T87.5

MedCoder structured workflow — derived from this code’s own official record

Before you code T87.5

  1. T87.5 is not reportable as written. Select the more specific code beneath it that the documentation supports. Codes are reported to the highest level of specificity the classification provides (Guidelines I.B.2).

    ReviewT87.50, T87.51, T87.52, T87.53, T87.54

    See the relationships section · Guide: How to choose an ICD-10-CM code →

Choose the right path

  1. Does the documentation support one of the more specific codes beneath T87.5?
    Yes → Select that code and continue the checks below on its own page.
    No → T87.5 cannot be reported as written; query for the specificity its subcategory needs.

    ReviewT87.50, T87.51, T87.52, T87.53, T87.54

Consider T87.5. Then work the Use Additional Code note, and confirm the code is valid for the date of service in the Verify section.

Documentation check

The provider’s diagnostic statement
Codes are assigned from the provider’s documented diagnosis, not from clinical criteria, test values or a medication list (Guidelines I.A.19).
The conditions the Use Additional Code note names
Reported with this code when documented; a conditional instruction (“if applicable”, “if known”) applies only when the record supports it.

Official instructions as workflow

  • Excludes2 — not part of T87.5(21 notes)

    Coding workflow: The conditions named in this note are not included in T87.5. When the record documents both, both may be reported; the note is a boundary, not a prohibition.

    CompareZ93, Z43, Z44, R50.82, G97.0, K94.0

    See the official tabular notes · Guidelines I.A.12.b

  • Use Additional Code — after identifying T87.5(3 notes)

    Coding workflow: Check whether the documentation supports the additional code(s) the note names, and report them with T87.5 when it does. Where the instruction is conditional (“if applicable”, “if known”), it applies only when the record documents the condition.

    See the official tabular notes · Guidelines I.A.13

Coding decision scenarios

Pattern scenarios for this code’s structure — decision rules, not clinical cases

Documentation: A condition the Use Additional Code note names is documented.

Coding question: Is a second code reported with T87.5?

Path: Review the Use Additional Code note and the code it names.

Reason: The additional code is reported when the record documents the condition; a conditional instruction applies only when its condition is met (Guidelines I.A.13).

Every row is derived from this code’s own record — its title, tabular notes, 7th-character family and same-category siblings — with fixed MedCoder wording; nothing is inferred about a patient. The official notes and guideline text are in the sections each row links to, and they control.

Coding context

The comparisons, hierarchy, index entries, guidelines, relationships, risk-adjustment and coverage context a coder commonly needs. Each section names whether it is official source data, a MedCoder-derived relationship or MedCoder editorial.

Don’t confuse T87.5 with…

MedCoder analysis — pairs from this code’s official notes, distinctions written by MedCoder

The codes most likely to be picked instead of T87.5 — named in its own official notes, or sharing its laterality or encounter family — with what separates them and which documentation moves the case. Each links to the full comparison.

  • T87.9— Specificity relationship (Review)

    Overlapping diagnoses in the same category.

    Overlapping codes in the same category — the documentation decides which is the more specific fit.

    What moves you there: A record that documents no more than “Unspecified complications of amputation stump” takes T87.9; specificity in the record moves it back here.

    Full comparison: T87.5 vs T87.9 →

  • Z93— Excludes2 relationship (Informational)

    Distinct conditions — both may be reported.

    A distinct condition — both may be reported when both are documented.

    What moves you there: Documentation of artificial opening status adds Z93; it is not part of this code and both may be reported when both are documented.

    Full comparison: T87.5 vs Z93 →

  • Z43— Excludes2 relationship (Informational)

    Distinct conditions — both may be reported.

    A distinct condition — both may be reported when both are documented.

    What moves you there: Documentation of closure of external stoma adds Z43; it is not part of this code and both may be reported when both are documented.

    Full comparison: T87.5 vs Z43 →

  • Z44— Excludes2 relationship (Informational)

    Distinct conditions — both may be reported.

    A distinct condition — both may be reported when both are documented.

    What moves you there: Documentation of fitting and adjustment of external prosthetic device adds Z44; it is not part of this code and both may be reported when both are documented.

    Full comparison: T87.5 vs Z44 →

  • T20— Excludes2 relationship (Informational)

    Distinct conditions — both may be reported.

    A distinct condition — both may be reported when both are documented.

    What moves you there: Documentation of burns and corrosions from local applications and irradiation adds T20; it is not part of this code and both may be reported when both are documented.

    Full comparison: T87.5 vs T20 →

  • T32— Excludes2 relationship (Informational)

    Distinct conditions — both may be reported.

    A distinct condition — both may be reported when both are documented.

    What moves you there: Documentation of burns and corrosions from local applications and irradiation adds T32; it is not part of this code and both may be reported when both are documented.

    Full comparison: T87.5 vs T32 →

Relationships are read from this code's own official notes, its laterality siblings and its encounter family; the wording of each distinction is MedCoder editorial, and the documentation named in each “what moves you there” line is the official note phrase or sibling title itself. Source: CMS ICD-10-CM tabular instructional notes; ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines, Section I.A.12.a.

Code Overview

Necrosis of amputation stump is a non-billable ICD-10-CM category code (T87.5). A more specific billable subcode must be selected for claims submission.

MedCoder summary Summary composed by MedCoder from this code's official ICD-10-CM record. The tabular instructional notes themselves appear verbatim below.

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Relationships & Classification

MedCoder-derived relationships — computed from published CMS and AHRQ datasets

Other codes that name T87.5 or its code family, from the CMS ICD-10-CM tabular instructional notes. Tabular-note edges are stored at the code family level that carries each note.

Referenced by 1 Excludes1 note: T88.7 — Unspecified adverse effect of drug or medicament (via T87.-).

These codes’ tabular lists mark this diagnosis as mutually exclusive — not reported together unless the conditions are documented as unrelated.

Referenced by 2 Excludes2 notes: T78 — Adverse effects, not elsewhere classified (via T87.-), T79 — Certain early complications of trauma, not elsewhere classified (via T87.-).

These codes’ tabular lists name this diagnosis as distinct — both may be reported when both are documented.

Related Codes

Same Index main term, other category

The ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries files this code under the main term “Necrosis, necrotic”; these codes share that main term but sit in a different category of the Tabular List.

M87.9 — Osteonecrosis, unspecified (bone), N17.0 — Acute kidney failure with tubular necrosis (tubular), N17.1 — Acute kidney failure with acute cortical necrosis (cortical), N17.2 — Acute kidney failure with medullary necrosis (papillary), N17.9 — Acute kidney failure, unspecified (kidney, acute), N28.0 — Ischemia and infarction of kidney (kidney), N32.89 — Other specified disorders of bladder (bladder), N50.89 — Other specified disorders of the male genital organs (testis), N64.1 — Fat necrosis of breast (breast), N70.92 — Oophoritis, unspecified (ovary), N89.8 — Other specified noninflammatory disorders of vagina (vagina), N90.89 — Other specified noninflammatory disorders of vulva and perineum (vulva), N99.0 — Postprocedural (acute) (chronic) kidney failure (tubular, postprocedural), N99.861 — Intraoperative and postprocedural nipple necrosis (nipple, intraoperative and postprocedural), O08.4 — Renal failure following ectopic and molar pregnancy (kidney, tubular, with ectopic or molar pregnancy), O99.285 — Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases complicating the puerperium (pituitary, Sheehan), P15.6 — Subcutaneous fat necrosis due to birth injury (fat, fatty, subcutaneous, due to birth injury), P83.0 — Sclerema neonatorum (fat, fatty, skin, newborn), P83.88 — Other specified conditions of integument specific to newborn (subcutaneous fat, newborn), T79.5 — Traumatic anuria (kidney, tubular, traumatic), +34 more

Contextual Map

Every relationship of T87.5 in one view: hierarchy, official tabular instructions in both directions, clinical classification, risk adjustment, MS-DRG participation, index terms and change history — each edge carrying the CMS source it derives from.

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Hierarchy

Referenced by Excludes1 notes

Referenced by Excludes2 notes

Nearest codes (33)

Change history

  • FY2016 — In the code set at ICD-10-CM adoption [Change history]— CMS release files (code change ledger) · icd10cm-fy2016

Deep reference

Published questions and FAQ, every source behind this page with its release and checksum, the date-of-service check and the complete change history.

Common coding questions

MedCoder editorial

Can T87.5 be billed directly?

No. T87.5 (Necrosis of amputation stump) is a non-billable ICD-10-CM category code. A more specific billable subcode must be selected based on clinical documentation.

Sources for this page

Codes, titles, notes, index terms and mappings on this page are transcribed from the datasets below. Relationships MedCoder computed and text MedCoder wrote are labelled where they appear.

Code, title, tabular notes and index terms Official source data
CMS/CDC ICD-10-CM FY2027 tabular list, index and tables, effective October 1, 2026 Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Claim edits Official source data
CMS Definitions of Medicare Code Edits — v44.0 (October 2026) Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Change history and date-of-service validity Official source data
CMS ICD-10-CM release addenda, ingested release by release into the change ledger Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Comparisons, relationships and the contextual map MedCoder-derived relationship
Computed by MedCoder from the tabular notes and tables above; every derived relationship is marked as derived where it appears
Summary and FAQ answers MedCoder editorial explanation
Written by MedCoder to explain the sources above: drafted with AI assistance, checked by a person against the release files, and labelled as MedCoder text where it appears. Not official text.

Current data releases:ICD-10-CM FY2027 · ICD-10-PCS FY2027 · HCPCS October 2026 · MS-DRG v44 · Medicare Code Editor v44.0 · NCCI PTP Q4 2026 · MUE Q4 2026 · NCD code lists 2026-01 · LCD export September 20, 2026 · All releases and sources

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Reference this page in a research guide, syllabus or article. The release is included because code content changes each year.

MedCoder.ai. "T87.5 — Necrosis of amputation stump." ICD-10-CM FY2027. https://medcoder.ai/icd10/code/t87.5-necrosis-of-amputation-stump

Change history

  • FY2016 — October 1, 2015
    In the code set at ICD-10-CM adoption
    Necrosis of amputation stump

No changes since FY2016 — additions, deletions, description changes and billable-status changes are tracked through FY2027, and none are recorded for this code. Note changes are tracked from FY2027 only.

Nearest Codes in This Family

Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to T87.5 in its code family, with their registry titles.

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