ICD-10-CM › S00-T88 › S10-S19 › S14 Injury of nerves and spinal cord... › S14.5
Injury of cervical sympathetic nerves
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.
Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:
- S14.5XXA Injury of cervical sympathetic nerves, initial encounter
- S14.5XXD Injury of cervical sympathetic nerves, subsequent encounter
- S14.5XXS Injury of cervical sympathetic nerves, sequela
This code requires a seventh character. See the rule below.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2014 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.
- FY2014 Added to the draft code set draft Injury of cervical sympathetic nerves
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
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.
- Axonotmesis
- Neurapraxia
- Nerve > injury
- Avulsion > nerve
- Division > nerve
- Contusion > nerve
- Injury > crushing
- Stretching, nerve
- Laceration > nerve
- Injury > arm > nerve
- Cave-in, injury > crushing
- Section > nerve, traumatic
- Horner syndrome > traumatic
- Injury > nerve NEC > shoulder
- Compression > nerve > traumatic
- Crush, crushed, crushing > nerve
- Injury > nerve NEC > arm > cutaneous
- Claude Bernard-Horner syndrome > traumatic
- Injury > nerve NEC > sympathetic NEC > cervical
- Paralysis, paralytic > traumatic, transient NEC
- Paralysis, paralytic > transient > traumatic NEC
- Injury > nerve NEC > neck > sympathetic
- Injury > nerve NEC > cervical sympathetic
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| S14.0 | Concussion and edema of cervical spinal cord | Not billable |
| S14.1 | Other and unspecified injuries 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 |
| S14.8 | Injury of other specified nerves of neck | Not billable |
| S14.9 | Injury of unspecified nerves of neck | Not billable |