S14 — Injury of nerves and spinal cord at neck level
S14 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for injury of nerves and spinal cord at neck level. 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 S14
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Code also
Both codes may be needed to describe the encounter fully. Sequencing depends on the reason for the visit.
Notes
Additional guidance from the ICD-10-CM tabular list.
- Code to highest level of cervical cord injury
Other codes that can never be billed with S14
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at S14. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading S14 alone.
- G83.8Other specified paralytic syndromes
Risk adjustment
S14 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Code to one of these instead S14
8 child codes. Green means billable.
- S14.0Concussion and edema of cervical spinal cord
- S14.1Other and unspecified injuries of cervical spinal cord
- S14.2Injury of nerve root of cervical spine
- S14.3Injury of brachial plexus
- S14.4Injury of peripheral nerves of neck
- S14.5Injury of cervical sympathetic nerves
- S14.8Injury of other specified nerves of neck
- S14.9Injury of unspecified nerves of neck
Questions about S14
- Is S14 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. S14 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does S14 sit in the tabular list?
- Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88), in the block Injuries to the neck (S10-S19).