ICD-10-CM Code S15.0
Injury of carotid artery of neck
NON-BILLABLE
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ICD-10 from 2011 - 2016
Non-Billable Code
Non-Billable means the code is not sufficient justification for admission to an acute care hospital when used a principal diagnosis. Use a child code to capture more detail.ICD Code S15.0 is a non-billable code. To code a diagnosis of this type, you must use one of the four child codes of S15.0 that describes the diagnosis 'injury of carotid artery of neck' in more detail.
- S15.0 Injury of carotid artery of neck NON-BILLABLE
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- S15.001 Unspecified injury of right carotid artery NON-BILLABLE
- S15.002 Unspecified injury of left carotid artery NON-BILLABLE
- S15.009 Unspecified injury of unspecified carotid artery NON-BILLABLE
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- S15.011 Minor laceration of right carotid artery NON-BILLABLE
- S15.012 Minor laceration of left carotid artery NON-BILLABLE
- S15.019 Minor laceration of unspecified carotid artery NON-BILLABLE
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- S15.021 Major laceration of right carotid artery NON-BILLABLE
- S15.022 Major laceration of left carotid artery NON-BILLABLE
- S15.029 Major laceration of unspecified carotid artery NON-BILLABLE
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Coding Notes for S15.0 Info for medical coders on how to properly use this ICD-10 code
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Inclusion Terms:
Inclusion Terms
Inclusion Terms are a list of concepts for which a specific code is used. The list of Inclusion Terms is useful for determining the correct code in some cases, but the list is not necessarily exhaustive. - Injury of carotid artery (common) (external) (internal, extracranial portion)
- Injury of carotid artery NOS
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Code Type-1 Excludes:
Type-1 Excludes
Type-1 Excludes mean the conditions excluded are mutually exclusive and should never be coded together. Excludes 1 means "do not code here." - Injury of internal carotid artery, intracranial portion - instead, use code S06.8
Related Concepts SNOMET-CT
- Transection of carotid artery (disorder)
Coding Advice SNOMET-CT
- Possible requirement for an external cause code
Parent Code: S15 - Injury of blood vessels at neck level