S15.8 — Injury of other specified blood vessels at neck level
S15.8 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for injury of other specified blood vessels 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 S15
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Risk adjustment
S15.8 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 S15.8 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 S15.8.
- Injury›blood vessel NEC›neck›specified site NEC
Code to one of these instead S15.8
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share S15. If S15.8 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about S15.8
- Is S15.8 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. S15.8 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does S15.8 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).