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  1. ICD.Codes
  2. ICD-10-CM (2016)
  3. Chapter 19
  4. Section S20-S29
  5. Code S24.1

ICD-10-CM Code S24.1
Other and unspecified injuries of thoracic spinal cord

NON-BILLABLE
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-10 from 2011 - 2016

ICD Code S24.1 is a non-billable code. To code a diagnosis of this type, you must use one of the five child codes of S24.1 that describes the diagnosis 'other and unspecified injuries of thoracic spinal cord' in more detail.

The ICD code S24 is used to code Chest injury

A chest injury is any form of physical injury to the chest including the ribs, heart and lungs. Chest injuries account for 25% of all deaths from traumatic injury. Typically chest injuries are caused by blunt mechanisms such as motor vehicle collisions or penetrating mechanisms such as stabbings.

Specialty: Emergency Medicine
MeSH Code: D013898
ICD 9 Code: 959.11

A chest X-ray of a right sided pulmonary contusion associated with flail chest and subcutaneous emphysema

Source: Wikipedia

Related Concepts SNOMET-CT

  • Open spinal subluxation with complete thoracic cord lesion (disorder)
  • Open spinal subluxation with anterior thoracic cord lesion (disorder)
  • Open spinal subluxation with central thoracic cord lesion (disorder)
  • Closed spinal fracture with complete thoracic cord lesion, T1-6 (disorder)
  • Closed fracture of T7-T12 level with central cord syndrome (disorder)

Coding Advice SNOMET-CT

  • Possible requirement for an external cause code

Parent Code: S24 - Injury of nerves and spinal cord at thorax level

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Source: http://icd.codes/icd10cm/S241