S74.1 — Injury of femoral nerve at hip and thigh level
S74.1 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for injury of femoral nerve at hip and thigh 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 S74
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above S74.1
Also inherited, and the opposite of Excludes1: these conditions are not part of S74.1, but a patient can have both, so you may code both.
Risk adjustment
S74.1 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 history
S74.1 has not changed since FY2024 — no addition, revision or deletion across the three most recent ICD-10-CM releases.
Code to one of these instead S74.1
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share S74. If S74.1 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about S74.1
- Is S74.1 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. S74.1 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does S74.1 sit in the tabular list?
- Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88), in the block Injuries to the hip and thigh (S70-S79).