ICD-10-CM Code S29.0
Injury of muscle and tendon at thorax level
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 S29.0 is a non-billable code. To code a diagnosis of this type, you must use one of the four child codes of S29.0 that describes the diagnosis 'injury of muscle and tendon at thorax level' in more detail.
- S29.0 Injury of muscle and tendon at thorax level NON-BILLABLE
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The ICD code S29 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
Related Concepts SNOMET-CT
- Strain of muscle of chest wall (disorder)
Coding Advice SNOMET-CT
- Possible requirement for an external cause code
Parent Code: S29 - Other and unspecified injuries of thorax