S16.8

S16.8: Other specified injury of muscle, fascia and tendon at neck level

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

S16.8 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other specified injury of muscle, fascia and tendon 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 S16

A: initial encounter
D: subsequent encounter
S: sequela

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above S16.8

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on S16: Injury of muscle, fascia and tendon at neck level

sprain of joint or ligament at neck level (S13.9)

Risk adjustment

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

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Injury›muscle›neck›specified type NEC

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead S16.8

3 child codes. Green means billable.