ICD-10-CM › S00-T88 › S20-S29 › S24 Injury of nerves and spinal cord... › S24.2
Injury of nerve root of thoracic spine
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:
- S24.2XXA Injury of nerve root of thoracic spine, initial encounter
- S24.2XXD Injury of nerve root of thoracic spine, subsequent encounter
- S24.2XXS Injury of nerve root of thoracic spine, 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 nerve root of thoracic spine
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 S24 Injury of nerves and spinal cord at thorax level
Seventh character required
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S24
Excludes2 - not included here
- injury of brachial plexus (S14.3)
Code also
- any associated:
- fracture of thoracic vertebra (S22.0-)
- open wound of thorax (S21.-)
- transient paralysis (R29.5)
Note
- Code to highest level of thoracic spinal cord injury
- Injuries to the spinal cord (S24.0 and S24.1) refer to the cord level and not bone level injury, and can affect nerve roots at and below the level given.
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.
- Axonotmesis
- Neurapraxia
- Nerve > injury
- Avulsion > nerve
- Division > nerve
- Contusion > nerve
- Injury > crushing
- Stretching, nerve
- Laceration > nerve
- Injury > arm > nerve
- Lesion > nerve > spinal
- Injury > nerve NEC > root
- Cave-in, injury > crushing
- Section > nerve, traumatic
- Injury > nerve NEC > shoulder
- Compression > nerve > traumatic
- Crush, crushed, crushing > nerve
- Injury > nerve NEC > arm > cutaneous
- Injury > spinal > nerve root NEC > dorsal
- Injury > spinal > nerve root NEC > thoracic
- Injury > nerve NEC > spinal > root > thoracic
- Paralysis, paralytic > traumatic, transient NEC
- Paralysis, paralytic > transient > traumatic NEC
- Injury > nerve NEC > spinal > root > dorsal
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| S24.0 | Concussion and edema of thoracic spinal cord | Not billable |
| S24.1 | Other and unspecified injuries of thoracic spinal cord | Not billable |
| S24.3 | Injury of peripheral nerves of thorax | Not billable |
| S24.4 | Injury of thoracic sympathetic nervous system | Not billable |
| S24.8 | Injury of other specified nerves of thorax | Not billable |
| S24.9 | Injury of unspecified nerve of thorax | Not billable |