S32.0
S32.0: Fracture of lumbar vertebra
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
S32.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for fracture of lumbar vertebra. 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 S32
- A
- initial encounter for closed fracture
- B
- initial encounter for open fracture
- D
- subsequent encounter for fracture with routine healing
- G
- subsequent encounter for fracture with delayed healing
- K
- subsequent encounter for fracture with nonunion
- S
- sequela
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Fracture of lumbar spine NOS
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above S32.0
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above S32.0
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Other codes that can never be billed with S32.0
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead S32.0
6 child codes. Green means billable.