S34.4 — Injury of lumbosacral plexus
S34.4 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for injury of lumbosacral plexus. 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 S34
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Risk adjustment
S34.4 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 S34.4 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 S34.4.
- Injury›lumbosacral plexus
Code to one of these instead S34.4
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share S34. If S34.4 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- S34.0Concussion and edema of lumbar and sacral spinal cord
- S34.1Other and unspecified injury of lumbar and sacral spinal cord
- S34.2Injury of nerve root of lumbar and sacral spine
- S34.3Injury of cauda equina
- S34.5Injury of lumbar, sacral and pelvic sympathetic nerves
- S34.6Injury of peripheral nerve(s) at abdomen, lower back and pelvis level
- S34.8Injury of other nerves at abdomen, lower back and pelvis level
- S34.9Injury of unspecified nerves at abdomen, lower back and pelvis level
Questions about S34.4
- Is S34.4 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. S34.4 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does S34.4 sit in the tabular list?
- Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88), in the block Injuries to the abdomen, lower back, lumbar spine, pelvis and external genitals (S30-S39).