Unspecified injury of right carotid artery

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 3 more specific codes instead:

S15.001A Unspecified injury of right carotid artery, initial encounter
S15.001D Unspecified injury of right carotid artery, subsequent encounter
S15.001S Unspecified injury of right carotid artery, 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 Unspecified injury of right carotid artery

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 S15 Injury of blood vessels at neck level

Seventh character required

The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S15

Code also

any associated open wound (S11.-)

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.

Injury > chest
Injury > hip > blood vessel
Injury > interscapular area
Injury > leg > blood vessel
Injury > thigh > blood vessel
Injury > blood vessel NEC > thigh
Injury > blood vessel NEC > leg > thigh
Injury > blood vessel NEC > limb > lower
Injury > blood vessel NEC > carotid artery

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
S15.002	Unspecified injury of left carotid artery	Not billable
S15.009	Unspecified injury of unspecified carotid artery	Not billable