Crushing injury of head (S07)

• ICD-10 Index

  • Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00–T98)

    • Injuries to the head (S00-S09)

      • Crushing injury of head (S07)

        • S07 - Crushing injury of head NON-BILLABLE CODE
        • S07.0 - Crushing injury of face NON-BILLABLE CODE
        • S07.0XXA - Crushing injury of face, initial encounter BILLABLE CODE
        • S07.0XXD - Crushing injury of face, subsequent encounter BILLABLE CODE
        • S07.0XXS - Crushing injury of face, sequela BILLABLE CODE
        • S07.1 - Crushing injury of skull NON-BILLABLE CODE
        • S07.1XXA - Crushing injury of skull, initial encounter BILLABLE CODE
        • S07.1XXD - Crushing injury of skull, subsequent encounter BILLABLE CODE
        • S07.1XXS - Crushing injury of skull, sequela BILLABLE CODE
        • S07.8 - Crushing injury of other parts of head NON-BILLABLE CODE
        • S07.8XXA - Crushing injury of other parts of head, initial encounter BILLABLE CODE
        • S07.8XXD - Crushing injury of other parts of head, subsequent encounter BILLABLE CODE
        • S07.8XXS - Crushing injury of other parts of head, sequela BILLABLE CODE
        • S07.9 - Crushing injury of head, part unspecified NON-BILLABLE CODE
        • S07.9XXA - Crushing injury of head, part unspecified, initial encounter BILLABLE CODE
        • S07.9XXD - Crushing injury of head, part unspecified, subs encntr BILLABLE CODE
        • S07.9XXS - Crushing injury of head, part unspecified, sequela BILLABLE CODE

Instructional Notations

Use Additional Code Use Additional Code
The “use additional code” indicates that a secondary code could be used to further specify the patient’s condition. This note is not mandatory and is only used if enough information is available to assign an additional code.

• code for all associated injuries, such as:
• intracranial injuries S06
• skull fractures S02

7th Character Note 7th Character Note
Certain ICD-10-CM categories have applicable 7th characters. The applicable 7th character is required for all codes within the category, or as the notes in the Tabular List instruct. The 7th character must always be the 7th character in the data field. If a code that requires a 7th character is not 6 characters, a placeholder X must be used to fill in the empty characters.

• The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S07

7th Character 7th Character
Indicates that a seventh character is to be assigned to codes in a subcategory.

• A - initial encounter
• D - subsequent encounter
• S - sequela