S60
S60 — Superficial injury of wrist, hand and fingers
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
S60 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for superficial injury of wrist, hand and fingers. 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 S60
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Other codes that can never be billed with S60
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at S60. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading S60 alone.
Risk adjustment
S60 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.
Code to one of these instead S60
8 child codes. Green means billable.
- S60.0Contusion of finger without damage to nail
- S60.1Contusion of finger with damage to nail
- S60.2Contusion of wrist and hand
- S60.3Other superficial injuries of thumb
- S60.4Other superficial injuries of other fingers
- S60.5Other superficial injuries of hand
- S60.8Other superficial injuries of wrist
- S60.9Unspecified superficial injury of wrist, hand and fingers
Questions about S60
- Is S60 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. S60 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does S60 sit in the tabular list?
- Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88), in the block Injuries to the wrist, hand and fingers (S60-S69).