ICD-10-CM Code S44.8
Injury of other nerves at shoulder and upper arm 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 S44.8 is a non-billable code. To code a diagnosis of this type, you must use one of the one child codes of S44.8 that describes the diagnosis 'injury of other nerves at shoulder and upper arm level' in more detail.
Coding Advice SNOMET-CT
- Possible requirement for an external cause code
Parent Code: S44 - Injury of nerves at shoulder and upper arm level