ICD-10-CM Code S15.1
Injury of vertebral artery
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 S15.1 is a non-billable code. To code a diagnosis of this type, you must use one of the four child codes of S15.1 that describes the diagnosis 'injury of vertebral artery' in more detail.
- S15.1 Injury of vertebral artery NON-BILLABLE
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- S15.101 Unspecified injury of right vertebral artery NON-BILLABLE
- S15.102 Unspecified injury of left vertebral artery NON-BILLABLE
- S15.109 Unspecified injury of unspecified vertebral artery NON-BILLABLE
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- S15.111 Minor laceration of right vertebral artery NON-BILLABLE
- S15.112 Minor laceration of left vertebral artery NON-BILLABLE
- S15.119 Minor laceration of unspecified vertebral artery NON-BILLABLE
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- S15.121 Major laceration of right vertebral artery NON-BILLABLE
- S15.122 Major laceration of left vertebral artery NON-BILLABLE
- S15.129 Major laceration of unspecified vertebral artery NON-BILLABLE
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Related Concepts SNOMET-CT
- Injury of vertebral artery (disorder)
- Transection of vertebral artery (disorder)
Coding Advice SNOMET-CT
- Possible requirement for an external cause code
Parent Code: S15 - Injury of blood vessels at neck level