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Specific code 2014 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 873.63
Open wound of tooth (broken) (fractured) (due to trauma), without mention of complication
  • 2014
  • Billable Thru Sept 30/2015
  • Non-Billable On/After Oct 1/2015

  • Short description: Broken tooth-uncomplic.
  • ICD-9-CM 873.63 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 873.63 should only be used for claims with a date of service on or before September 30, 2015. For claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015, use an equivalent ICD-10-CM code (or codes).
  • You are viewing the 2014 version of ICD-9-CM 873.63.
  • More recent version(s) of ICD-9-CM 873.63: 2015.
Convert to ICD-10-CM: 873.63 converts approximately to:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM S02.5XXA Fracture of tooth (traumatic), initial encounter for closed fracture
    Or:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM S02.5XXB Fracture of tooth (traumatic), initial encounter for open fracture
Approximate Synonyms
  • Broken tooth
  • Fracture of tooth
  • Injury of teeth
  • Open traumatic fracture of tooth
  • Open traumatic tooth fx
  • Tooth fracture
  • Tooth injury
  • Traumatic tooth fx
873.63 Excludes
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 873.63:
  • Avulsion (traumatic) 879.8
    • tooth 873.63
  • Broken
    • tooth, teeth 873.63
  • Fracture (abduction) (adduction) (avulsion) (compression) (crush) (dislocation) (oblique) (separation) (closed) 829.0
    • root, tooth 873.63
    • tooth (root) 873.63
  • Injury 959.9
    • tooth NEC 873.63
  • Odontoclasis 873.63
 873.62 ICD9Data.com 873.64 
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