ICD-10-CM › S00-T88 › S90-S99 › S97.1 Crushing injury of toe › S97.11

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:

• S97.111 Crushing injury of right great toe (also a header)
• S97.112 Crushing injury of left great toe (also a header)
• S97.119 Crushing injury of unspecified great toe (also a header)

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 S97 Crushing injury of ankle and foot

Seventh character required

• The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S97

Use additional code

• code(s) for all associated injuries

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.

• Injury > crushing
• Cave-in, injury > crushing
• Crush, crushed, crushing > heel
• Crush, crushed, crushing > foot > toe
• Crush, crushed, crushing > extremity > lower > toe
• Crush, crushed, crushing > extremity > lower > foot
• Crush, crushed, crushing > toe > great

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
S97.10	Crushing injury of unspecified toe(s)	Not billable
S97.12	Crushing injury of lesser toe(s)	Not billable