Crushing injury of other specified parts 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.

FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Crushing injury of other parts of neck, initial encounter
FY2011 Draft description revised draft ~~Crushing injury of other parts of neck, initial encounter~~ Crushing injury of other specified parts 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 S17 Crushing injury of neck

Seventh character required

The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S17

Use additional code

code for all associated injuries, such as:
injury of blood vessels (S15.-)
open wound of neck (S11.-)
spinal cord injury (S14.0, S14.1-)
vertebral fracture (S12.0--S12.3-)

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 > crushing
Cave-in, injury > crushing
Crush, crushed, crushing > throat

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
S17.8XXD	Crushing injury of other specified parts of neck, subsequent encounter	Valid
S17.8XXS	Crushing injury of other specified parts of neck, sequela	Valid