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S60

Superficial injury of wrist, hand and fingers

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 8 more specific codes instead:

  • S60.0 Contusion of finger without damage to nail (also a header)
  • S60.1 Contusion of finger with damage to nail (also a header)
  • S60.2 Contusion of wrist and hand (also a header)
  • S60.3 Other superficial injuries of thumb (also a header)
  • S60.4 Other superficial injuries of other fingers (also a header)
  • S60.5 Other superficial injuries of hand (also a header)
  • S60.8 Other superficial injuries of wrist (also a header)
  • S60.9 Unspecified superficial injury of wrist, hand and fingers (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 Superficial injury of wrist, hand and fingers

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 S60

Inherited from the S60-S69 section Injuries to the wrist, hand and fingers (S60-S69)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • burns and corrosions (T20-T32)
  • frostbite (T33-T34)
  • insect bite or sting, venomous (T63.4)