S14.15
S14.15: Other incomplete lesions of cervical spinal cord
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
S14.15 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other incomplete lesions of cervical spinal cord. 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
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Incomplete lesion of cervical spinal cord NOS
- Posterior cord syndrome of cervical spinal cord
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 S14.15
9 child codes. Green means billable.
- S14.151Other incomplete lesion at C1 level of cervical spinal cord
- S14.152Other incomplete lesion at C2 level of cervical spinal cord
- S14.153Other incomplete lesion at C3 level of cervical spinal cord
- S14.154Other incomplete lesion at C4 level of cervical spinal cord
- S14.155Other incomplete lesion at C5 level of cervical spinal cord
- S14.156Other incomplete lesion at C6 level of cervical spinal cord
- S14.157Other incomplete lesion at C7 level of cervical spinal cord
- S14.158Other incomplete lesion at C8 level of cervical spinal cord
- S14.159Other incomplete lesion at unspecified level of cervical spinal cord