ICD-10-CM › S00-T88 › S40-S49 › S40.2 Other superficial injuries of shoulder › S40.25
Superficial foreign body of shoulder
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:
- S40.251 Superficial foreign body of right shoulder (also a header)
- S40.252 Superficial foreign body of left shoulder (also a header)
- S40.259 Superficial foreign body of unspecified shoulder (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.
- FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Superficial foreign body of shoulder
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 S40 Superficial injury of shoulder and upper arm
Seventh character required
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S40
Inherited from the S40-S49 section Injuries to the shoulder and upper arm (S40-S49)
Excludes2 - not included here
- burns and corrosions (T20-T32)
- frostbite (T33-T34)
- injuries of elbow (S50-S59)
- insect bite or sting, venomous (T63.4)
Includes
- injuries of axilla
- injuries of scapular region
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.
- Emesis
- Retching
- Splinter
- Granuloma > talc
- Regurgitation > food
- Foreign body > granuloma
- Reaction > foreign > body NEC
- Foreign body > lacrimal punctum
- Injury > shoulder > superficial
- Aspiration > syndrome of newborn
- Regurgitation > gastric contents
- Myositis > foreign body granuloma
- Pneumonia > neonatal > aspiration
- Syndrome > aspiration, of newborn
- Asphyxia, asphyxiation > inhalation
- Injury > superficial NEC > foreign body
- Injury > superficial NEC > scapular region
- Foreign body > entering through orifice > eyeball
- Injury > superficial NEC > shoulder > foreign body
- Foreign body > entering through orifice > lacrimal apparatus
- Foreign body > entering through orifice > tear ducts or glands
- Foreign body > superficial, without open wound > scapular region
- Foreign body > superficial, without open wound > shoulder
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| S40.21 | Abrasion of shoulder | Not billable |
| S40.22 | Blister (nonthermal) of shoulder | Not billable |
| S40.24 | External constriction of shoulder | Not billable |
| S40.26 | Insect bite (nonvenomous) of shoulder | Not billable |
| S40.27 | Other superficial bite of shoulder | Not billable |