S34.5
S34.5: Injury of lumbar, sacral and pelvic sympathetic nerves
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
S34.5 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for injury of lumbar, sacral and pelvic sympathetic nerves. 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
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Injury of celiac ganglion or plexus
- Injury of hypogastric plexus
- Injury of mesenteric plexus (inferior) (superior)
- Injury of splanchnic nerve
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Injury›nerve NEC›lumbar spinal›sympathetic
- Injury›nerve NEC›lumbosacral›sympathetic
- Injury›nerve NEC›sacral spinal›sympathetic
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead S34.5
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Other codes under S34
- 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
- S34.4Injury of lumbosacral plexus
- 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