S20.95

S20.95: Superficial foreign body of unspecified parts of thorax

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

S20.95 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for superficial foreign body of unspecified parts of thorax. 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 S20

A: initial encounter
D: subsequent encounter
S: sequela

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Splinter in thorax NOS

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above S20.95

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on S20.9: Superficial injury of unspecified parts of thorax

contusion of thorax NOS (S20.20)

Risk adjustment

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

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Foreign body›superficial, without open wound›thorax, thoracic(wall)

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead S20.95

3 child codes. Green means billable.