S02.19

S02.19: Other fracture of base of skull

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

S02.19 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other fracture of base of skull. 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 S02

A: initial encounter for closed fracture
B: initial encounter for open fracture
D: subsequent encounter for fracture with routine healing
G: subsequent encounter for fracture with delayed healing
K: subsequent encounter for fracture with nonunion
S: sequela

Inclusion terms

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

Fracture of anterior fossa of base of skull
Fracture of ethmoid sinus
Fracture of frontal sinus
Fracture of middle fossa of base of skull
Fracture of posterior fossa of base of skull
Fracture of sphenoid
Fracture of temporal bone

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above S02.19

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on S02.1: Fracture of base of skull

lateral orbital wall (S02.84-)
medial orbital wall (S02.83-)
orbital floor (S02.3-)

Other codes that can never be billed with S02.19

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

S01Open wound of head

Risk adjustment

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

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Fracture, traumatic›fossa(anterior) (middle) (posterior)
Fracture, traumatic›sinus(ethmoid) (frontal)
Fracture, traumatic›sphenoid(bone) (sinus)
Fracture, traumatic›temporal bone(styloid)
Fracture, traumatic›frontal›sinus
Fracture, traumatic›skull›temporal bone
Fracture, traumatic›skull›base›specified NEC