Valid for Submission
S04.039A is a billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of injury of optic tract and pathways, unspecified side, initial encounter. The code is valid for the year 2020 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions. The ICD-10-CM code S04.039A might also be used to specify conditions or terms like avulsion of cranial nerve, avulsion of optic nerve, complete division of cranial nerve, disorder of optic tract, injury of optic chiasm, injury of optic radiation, etc
ICD-10: | S04.039A |
Short Description: | Injury of optic tract and pathways, unspecified side, init |
Long Description: | Injury of optic tract and pathways, unspecified side, initial encounter |
Synonyms
The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:
- Avulsion of cranial nerve
- Avulsion of optic nerve
- Complete division of cranial nerve
- Disorder of optic tract
- Injury of optic chiasm
- Injury of optic radiation
- Injury of optic tract
- Optic nerve and pathway injury
- Optic nerve and pathway injury
- Optic nerve and pathway injury
- Optic radiation disorder
- Traumatic injury of optic disk
- Traumatic injury of visual pathways
- Traumatic optic nerve injury
- Traumatic optic nerve injury
- Traumatic optic neuropathy
Convert S04.039A to ICD-9
- 950.2 - Injury to optic pathways (Approximate Flag)
Code Classification
Code History
- FY 2016 - New Code, effective from 10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016
(First year ICD-10-CM implemented into the HIPAA code set) - FY 2017 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2016 through 9/30/2017
- FY 2018 - Code Updated, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
- New Description: Injury of optic tract and pathways, unspecified side, initial encounter
- Previous Description: Injury of optic tract and pathways, unspecified eye, initial encounter
- FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
- FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020