ICD-10-CM Code S50.9
Unspecified superficial injury of elbow and forearm
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 S50.9 is a non-billable code. To code a diagnosis of this type, you must use one of the two child codes of S50.9 that describes the diagnosis 'unspecified superficial injury of elbow and forearm' in more detail.
- S50.9 Unspecified superficial injury of elbow and forearm NON-BILLABLE
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- S50.901 Unspecified superficial injury of right elbow NON-BILLABLE
- S50.902 Unspecified superficial injury of left elbow NON-BILLABLE
- S50.909 Unspecified superficial injury of unspecified elbow NON-BILLABLE
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The ICD code S50 is used to code Bruise
A bruise, or contusion, is a type of hematoma of tissue in which capillaries and sometimes venules are damaged by trauma, allowing blood to seep, hemorrhage, or extravasate into the surrounding interstitial tissues. Bruises, which do not blanch under pressure, can involve capillaries at the level of skin, subcutaneous tissue, muscle, or bone. Bruises are not to be confused with other similar-looking lesions primarily distinguished by their by their diameter or causation. These lesions include petechia (< 3 mm result from numerous and diverse etiologies such as adverse reactions from medications such as warfarin, straining, asphyxiation, platelet disorders and diseases such as cytomegalovirus), purpura (3 mm to 1 cm, classified as palpable purpura or non-palpable purpura and indicates various pathologic conditions such as thrombocytopenia), and ecchymosis (>1 cm caused blood dissecting through tissue planes and settled in an area remote from the site of trauma or pathology such as periorbital ecchymosis, i.e.,"raccoon eyes" , arising from a basilar skull fracture or from a neuroblastoma).
Specialty: | Emergency Medicine |
MeSH Codes: | D003288, D003288, D003288, D003288, D003288 |
ICD 9 Codes: | 920, 921, 922, 923, 924 |
Bruise on upper leg caused by a blunt object
Coding Advice SNOMET-CT
- Possible requirement for an external cause code
Parent Code: S50 - Superficial injury of elbow and forearm