ICD-10-CM › S00-T88 › S20-S29 › S23.9 Sprain of unspecified parts of thorax › S23.9XXD
Sprain of unspecified parts of thorax, subsequent encounter
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
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 Sprain of unspecified parts of thorax, subsequent 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 S23 Dislocation and sprain of joints and ligaments of thorax
Seventh character required
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S23
Excludes2 - not included here
- dislocation, sprain of sternoclavicular joint (S43.2, S43.6)
- strain of muscle or tendon of thorax (S29.01-)
Code also
- any associated open wound
Includes
- avulsion of joint or ligament of thorax
- laceration of cartilage, joint or ligament of thorax
- sprain of cartilage, joint or ligament of thorax
- traumatic hemarthrosis of joint or ligament of thorax
- traumatic rupture of joint or ligament of thorax
- traumatic subluxation of joint or ligament of thorax
- traumatic tear of joint or ligament of thorax
Inherited from the S20-S29 section Injuries to the thorax (S20-S29)
Excludes2 - not included here
- burns and corrosions (T20-T32)
- effects of foreign body in bronchus (T17.5)
- effects of foreign body in esophagus (T18.1)
- effects of foreign body in lung (T17.8)
- effects of foreign body in trachea (T17.4)
- frostbite (T33-T34)
- injuries of axilla
- injuries of clavicle
- injuries of scapular region
- injuries of shoulder
- insect bite or sting, venomous (T63.4)
Includes
- injuries of breast
- injuries of chest (wall)
- injuries of interscapular area
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.
- Tenosynovitis
- Injury > chest
- Injury > axilla
- Sprain > scapula
- Avulsion > ligament
- Division > ligament
- Detachment > ligament
- Dislocation > partial
- Disruption > ligament
- Laceration > ligament
- Tear, torn > ligament
- Detachment > cartilage
- Tear, torn > cartilage
- Dislocation > incomplete
- Hemarthrosis > traumatic
- Injury > scapular region
- Avulsion > joint > capsule
- Injury > shoulder > sprain
- Laceration > joint capsule
- Injury > interscapular area
- Laceration > capsule, joint
- Tear, torn > capsule, joint
- Disorder > tendon > synovitis
- Rupture, ruptured > cartilage
- Synovitis > traumatic, current
- Disorder > joint > hemarthrosis
- Disorder > synovium > synovitis
- Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic > joint
- Sprain > shoulder joint > blade
- Dislocation > vertebra > partial
- Subluxation > ligament, traumatic
- Rupture, ruptured > traumatic > ligament
- Rupture, ruptured > joint capsule, traumatic
- Injury > thorax, thoracic > external > sprain
- Sprain > shoulder joint > coracoclavicular joint
- Sprain > shoulder joint > coracohumeral ligament
- Sprain > shoulder joint > acromioclavicular joint
- Sprain > thorax
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| S23.9XXA | Sprain of unspecified parts of thorax, initial encounter | Valid |
| S23.9XXS | Sprain of unspecified parts of thorax, sequela | Valid |