S14.3 — Injury of brachial plexus
S14.3 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for injury of brachial plexus. 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
Risk adjustment
S14.3 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.
How S14.3 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to S14.3.
- Injury›brachial plexus
Code to one of these instead S14.3
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share S14. If S14.3 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- 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
- S14.4Injury 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 S14.3
- Is S14.3 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. S14.3 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does S14.3 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).