S61.15
S61.15: Open bite of thumb with damage to nail
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
S61.15 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for open bite of thumb with damage to nail. 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 S61
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Excludes1: never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Bite of thumb with damage to nail NOS
Other codes that can never be billed with S61.15
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- S60.37Other superficial bite of thumb
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 S61.15
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Other codes under S61.1
- S61.10Unspecified open wound of thumb with damage to nail
- S61.11Laceration without foreign body of thumb with damage to nail
- S61.12Laceration with foreign body of thumb with damage to nail
- S61.13Puncture wound without foreign body of thumb with damage to nail
- S61.14Puncture wound with foreign body of thumb with damage to nail