S26.0 — Injury of heart with hemopericardium
S26.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for injury of heart with hemopericardium. 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 S26
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Other codes that can never be billed with S26.0
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at S26.0. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading S26.0 alone.
Risk adjustment
S26.0 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.
Code history
S26.0 has not changed since FY2024 — no addition, revision or deletion across the three most recent ICD-10-CM releases.
Code to one of these instead S26.0
4 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share S26. If S26.0 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about S26.0
- Is S26.0 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. S26.0 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does S26.0 sit in the tabular list?
- Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88), in the block Injuries to the thorax (S20-S29).