ICD-10-CM Code S55.8
Injury of other blood vessels at forearm 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 S55.8 is a non-billable code. To code a diagnosis of this type, you must use one of the three child codes of S55.8 that describes the diagnosis 'injury of other blood vessels at forearm level' in more detail.
- S55.8 Injury of other blood vessels at forearm level NON-BILLABLE
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Coding Advice SNOMET-CT
- Possible requirement for an external cause code
Parent Code: S55 - Injury of blood vessels at forearm level