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S14

Injury of nerves and spinal cord at neck level

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 8 more specific codes instead:

  • S14.0 Concussion and edema of cervical spinal cord (also a header)
  • S14.1 Other and unspecified injuries of cervical spinal cord (also a header)
  • S14.2 Injury of nerve root of cervical spine (also a header)
  • S14.3 Injury of brachial plexus (also a header)
  • S14.4 Injury of peripheral nerves of neck (also a header)
  • S14.5 Injury of cervical sympathetic nerves (also a header)
  • S14.8 Injury of other specified nerves of neck (also a header)
  • S14.9 Injury of unspecified nerves of neck (also a header)

This code requires a seventh character. See the rule below.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 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. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Injury of nerves and spinal cord at neck level

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.

This code

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S14

Code also

  • any associated:
  • fracture of cervical vertebra (S12.0--S12.6.-)
  • open wound of neck (S11.-)
  • transient paralysis (R29.5)

Note

  • Code to highest level of cervical cord injury

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