ICD-10-CM › S00-T88 › S60-S69 › S63.00 Unspecified subluxation and... › S63.002

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 3 more specific codes instead:

• S63.002A Unspecified subluxation of left wrist and hand, initial encounter
• S63.002D Unspecified subluxation of left wrist and hand, subsequent encounter
• S63.002S Unspecified subluxation of left wrist and hand, sequela

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

What has happened to this code

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 S63 Dislocation and sprain of joints and ligaments at wrist and hand level

Seventh character required

• The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S63

Excludes2 - not included here

• strain of muscle, fascia and tendon of wrist and hand (S66.-)

Code also

• any associated open wound

Includes

• avulsion of joint or ligament at wrist and hand level
• laceration of cartilage, joint or ligament at wrist and hand level
• sprain of cartilage, joint or ligament at wrist and hand level
• traumatic hemarthrosis of joint or ligament at wrist and hand level
• traumatic rupture of joint or ligament at wrist and hand level
• traumatic subluxation of joint or ligament at wrist and hand level
• traumatic tear of joint or ligament at wrist and hand level

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)

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.

• Dislocation > partial
• Dislocation > incomplete
• Complex > jumped process, spine
• Dislocation > thorax > vertebra
• Dislocation > vertebra > partial
• Displacement, displaced > intervertebral disc NEC > due to trauma
• Subluxation > wrist

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
S63.001	Unspecified subluxation of right wrist and hand	Not billable
S63.003	Unspecified subluxation of unspecified wrist and hand	Not billable
S63.004	Unspecified dislocation of right wrist and hand	Not billable
S63.005	Unspecified dislocation of left wrist and hand	Not billable
S63.006	Unspecified dislocation of unspecified wrist and hand	Not billable