Other and unspecified injuries of cervical spinal cord

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 6 more specific codes instead:

S14.10 Unspecified injury of cervical spinal cord (also a header)
S14.11 Complete lesion of cervical spinal cord (also a header)
S14.12 Central cord syndrome of cervical spinal cord (also a header)
S14.13 Anterior cord syndrome of cervical spinal cord (also a header)
S14.14 Brown-Sequard syndrome of cervical spinal cord (also a header)
S14.15 Other incomplete lesions of cervical spinal cord (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.

FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Other and unspecified injuries of cervical spinal cord

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 S14 Injury of nerves and spinal cord at neck level

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

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
S14.0	Concussion and edema of cervical spinal cord	Not billable
S14.2	Injury of nerve root of cervical spine	Not billable
S14.3	Injury of brachial plexus	Not billable
S14.4	Injury of peripheral nerves of neck	Not billable
S14.5	Injury of cervical sympathetic nerves	Not billable
S14.8	Injury of other specified nerves of neck	Not billable
S14.9	Injury of unspecified nerves of neck	Not billable