S26.022 — Major laceration of heart with hemopericardium
S26.022 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for major laceration 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
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Laceration of heart with penetration of multiple heart chambers
Risk adjustment
S26.022 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 S26.022 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 S26.022.
- Injury›heart›with hemopericardium›laceration›major
Code to one of these instead S26.022
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share S26.02. If S26.022 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about S26.022
- Is S26.022 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. S26.022 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does S26.022 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).