ICD-10-CM › S00-T88 › S60-S69 › S67.90 Crushing injury of unspecified... › S67.90XS

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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 S67 Crushing injury of wrist, hand and fingers

Seventh character required

• The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S67

Use additional code

• code for all associated injuries, such as:
• fracture of wrist and hand (S62.-)
• open wound of wrist and hand (S61.-)

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.

• Injury > crushing
• Cave-in, injury > crushing
• Crush, crushed, crushing > extremity > upper > below elbow

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
S67.90XA	Crushing injury of unspecified part(s) of unspecified wrist, hand and fingers, initial encounter	Valid
S67.90XD	Crushing injury of unspecified part(s) of unspecified wrist, hand and fingers, subsequent encounter	Valid