ICD-10-CM › S00-T88 › S10-S19 › S19.8 Other specified injuries of neck › S19.82

S19.82

Other specified injuries of cervical trachea

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:

  • S19.82XA Other specified injuries of cervical trachea, initial encounter
  • S19.82XD Other specified injuries of cervical trachea, subsequent encounter
  • S19.82XS Other specified injuries of cervical trachea, 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.

  1. FY2014 Added to the draft code set draft Other specified injuries of cervical trachea

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 S19 Other specified and unspecified injuries of neck

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S19

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
S19.80 Other specified injuries of unspecified part of neck Not billable
S19.81 Other specified injuries of larynx Not billable
S19.83 Other specified injuries of vocal cord Not billable
S19.84 Other specified injuries of thyroid gland Not billable
S19.85 Other specified injuries of pharynx and cervical esophagus Not billable
S19.89 Other specified injuries of other specified part of neck Not billable