S12.9

S12.9: Fracture of neck, unspecified

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

S12.9 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for fracture of neck, unspecified. 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 code S12.9

A: initial encounter
D: subsequent encounter
S: sequela

Inclusion terms

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

Fracture of neck NOS
Fracture of cervical spine NOS
Fracture of cervical vertebra NOS

Other codes that can never be billed with S12.9

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

M48.5Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified
M84.3Stress fracture
M84.4Pathological fracture, not elsewhere classified

Risk adjustment

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

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Fracture, traumatic›neck
Fracture, traumatic›neck›cervical vertebra
Fracture, traumatic›vertebra, vertebral›cervical(teardrop)

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead S12.9

3 child codes. Green means billable.