S00.8

S00.8: Superficial injury of other parts of head

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

S00.8 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for superficial injury of other parts of head. 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.

Superficial injuries of face [any part]

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above S00.8

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.-)

Other codes that can never be billed with S00.8

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

S01.85Open bite of other part of head
S01.85XAOpen bite of other part of head, initial encounter
S01.85XDOpen bite of other part of head, subsequent encounter
S01.85XSOpen bite of other part of head, sequela

Risk adjustment

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

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead S00.8

8 child codes. Green means billable.