ICD-10-CM › S00-T88 › S90-S99 › S94.1 Injury of medial plantar nerve › S94.12
Injury of medial plantar nerve, left leg
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:
- S94.12XA Injury of medial plantar nerve, left leg, initial encounter
- S94.12XD Injury of medial plantar nerve, left leg, subsequent encounter
- S94.12XS Injury of medial plantar nerve, left leg, sequela
This code requires a seventh character. See the rule below.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2014 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.
- FY2014 Added to the draft code set draft Injury of medial plantar nerve, left leg
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 S94 Injury of nerves at ankle and foot level
Seventh character required
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S94
Code also
- any associated open wound (S91.-)
Inherited from the S90-S99 section Injuries to the ankle and foot (S90-S99)
Excludes2 - not included here
- burns and corrosions (T20-T32)
- fracture of ankle and malleolus (S82.-)
- 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.
- Axonotmesis
- Neurapraxia
- Nerve > injury
- Avulsion > nerve
- Division > nerve
- Contusion > nerve
- Injury > crushing
- Stretching, nerve
- Laceration > nerve
- Injury > arm > nerve
- Cave-in, injury > crushing
- Section > nerve, traumatic
- Injury > nerve NEC > shoulder
- Compression > nerve > traumatic
- Crush, crushed, crushing > nerve
- Injury > nerve NEC > arm > cutaneous
- Paralysis, paralytic > traumatic, transient NEC
- Paralysis, paralytic > transient > traumatic NEC
- Injury > nerve NEC > medial plantar
- Injury > nerve NEC > foot > medial plantar
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| S94.10 | Injury of medial plantar nerve, unspecified leg | Not billable |
| S94.11 | Injury of medial plantar nerve, right leg | Not billable |