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S54.2

S54.2: Injury of radial nerve at forearm level

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

S54.2 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for injury of radial nerve at forearm level. 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 S54

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 radial nerve NOS

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above S54.2

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on S54: Injury of nerves at forearm level

  • injury of nerves at wrist and hand level (S64.-)

Other codes that can never be billed with S54.2

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

  • S44.2Injury of radial nerve at upper arm level

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 S54.2

3 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under S54

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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