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S27

Injury of other and unspecified intrathoracic organs

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 9 more specific codes instead:

  • S27.0 Traumatic pneumothorax (also a header)
  • S27.1 Traumatic hemothorax (also a header)
  • S27.2 Traumatic hemopneumothorax (also a header)
  • S27.3 Other and unspecified injuries of lung (also a header)
  • S27.4 Injury of bronchus (also a header)
  • S27.5 Injury of thoracic trachea (also a header)
  • S27.6 Injury of pleura (also a header)
  • S27.8 Injury of other specified intrathoracic organs (also a header)
  • S27.9 Injury of unspecified intrathoracic organ (also a header)

This code requires a seventh character. See the rule below.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 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. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Injury of other and unspecified intrathoracic organs

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.

This code

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S27

Excludes2 - not included here

  • injury of cervical esophagus (S10-S19)
  • injury of trachea (cervical) (S10-S19)

Code also

  • any associated open wound of thorax (S21.-)

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