ICD-10-CM › S00-T88 › S10-S19 › S10.96 Insect bite of unspecified part of neck › S10.96XA

S10.96XA

Insect bite of unspecified part of neck, initial encounter

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Insect bite of unspecified part of neck, initial encounter

Official coding rules

Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.

Inherited from S10 Superficial injury of neck

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S10

Inherited from the S10-S19 section Injuries to the neck (S10-S19)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • burns and corrosions (T20-T32)
  • effects of foreign body in esophagus (T18.1)
  • effects of foreign body in larynx (T17.3)
  • effects of foreign body in pharynx (T17.2)
  • effects of foreign body in trachea (T17.4)
  • frostbite (T33-T34)
  • insect bite or sting, venomous (T63.4)

Includes

  • injuries of nape
  • injuries of supraclavicular region
  • injuries of throat

How CDC's index refers to this code

Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.

Showing 40 of 49 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
S10.96XD Insect bite of unspecified part of neck, subsequent encounter Valid
S10.96XS Insect bite of unspecified part of neck, sequela Valid