S61.338 — Puncture wound without foreign body of other finger with damage to nail
S61.338 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for puncture wound without foreign body of other finger 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
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Puncture wound without foreign body of specified finger with unspecified laterality with damage to nail
Risk adjustment
S61.338 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 S61.338 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 S61.338.
- Puncture›finger›index›with›damage to nail
- Puncture›finger›little›with›damage to nail
- Puncture›finger›middle›with›damage to nail
- Puncture›finger›ring›with›damage to nail
Code to one of these instead S61.338
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share S61.33. If S61.338 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- S61.330Puncture wound without foreign body of right index finger with damage to nail
- S61.331Puncture wound without foreign body of left index finger with damage to nail
- S61.332Puncture wound without foreign body of right middle finger with damage to nail
- S61.333Puncture wound without foreign body of left middle finger with damage to nail
- S61.334Puncture wound without foreign body of right ring finger with damage to nail
- S61.335Puncture wound without foreign body of left ring finger with damage to nail
- S61.336Puncture wound without foreign body of right little finger with damage to nail
- S61.337Puncture wound without foreign body of left little finger with damage to nail
- S61.339Puncture wound without foreign body of unspecified finger with damage to nail
Questions about S61.338
- Is S61.338 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. S61.338 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does S61.338 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).