2025 ICD-10-CM code X19
(Active) Effective Date: N/A Revision Date: N/A Deletion Date: N/A External causes of morbidity - Contact with heat and hot substances Chapter 20: External causes of morbidity and mortality Feed
Contact with other heat and hot substances, excluding objects made hot by fire.
Medical necessity is established when a patient has sustained a burn or scald injury due to contact with a hot substance, requiring medical attention and treatment to prevent complications such as infection and scarring.The severity of the burn will dictate the need for treatment.
The clinical responsibility for this code depends on the type of injury sustained and the setting of care.It may involve emergency medicine physicians, surgeons, or other specialists depending on the severity of the burn.
- Chapter 20: External causes of morbidity and mortality
- External causes of morbidity > Accidents > Contact with heat and hot substances
In simple words: This code is used when someone is hurt by touching something hot, but not by a fire.For example, if someone gets burned by touching a hot stove or a hot liquid, this code would be used along with a code that describes the burn itself.
This ICD-10-CM code classifies injuries resulting from contact with heat or hot substances, excluding those caused by fire or flames (coded elsewhere).It's used as a secondary code to indicate the external cause of an injury, and it should always be paired with a code from Chapter 19 (Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes) that specifies the nature of the injury itself (e.g., burns, scalds).
Example 1: A patient presents to the emergency room with second-degree burns on their arm after accidentally touching a hot stove.Code X19 would be used in conjunction with codes from Chapter 19 to describe the burns. , A child is brought to the clinic with a scald injury on their leg after spilling hot coffee. Code X19 would be used with codes from Chapter 19 describing the scald., A worker in a factory sustains a burn to their hand while working with hot metal. Code X19 would be paired with injury codes from Chapter 19, and additional codes might be used to capture the occupational nature of the injury.
Detailed description of the injury (e.g., location, size, depth, degree of burn).Mechanism of injury (e.g., contact with hot stove, spilled hot liquid).Photographs of the injury (if available).Treatment provided (e.g., wound care, pain management, surgery).Follow-up plan.
** Code X19 excludes injuries caused by fire or flames (X00-X09).
- Payment Status: Active
- Specialties:Emergency Medicine, Surgery, Occupational Medicine
- Place of Service:Emergency Room - Hospital, Office, Urgent Care Facility, Inpatient Hospital, Outpatient Hospital