S00.05

S00.05: Superficial foreign body of scalp

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

S00.05 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for superficial foreign body of scalp. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below. This code also requires a 7th character before it is complete.

This code requires a 7th character

The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S00

A: initial encounter
D: subsequent encounter
S: sequela

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Splinter in the scalp

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above S00.05

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on S00: Superficial injury of head

diffuse cerebral contusion (S06.2-)
focal cerebral contusion (S06.3-)
injury of eye and orbit (S05.-)
open wound of head (S01.-)

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Foreign body›superficial, without open wound›occipital region
Foreign body›superficial, without open wound›parietal region
Foreign body›superficial, without open wound›scalp
Foreign body›superficial, without open wound›head›scalp

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead S00.05

3 child codes. Green means billable.