S40

The ICD-10-CM code for superficial injury of shoulder and upper arm is S40. The full clinical description is "Superficial injury of shoulder and upper arm". S40 is a non-billable header code. Use a more specific child code for billing purposes.

ICD-10-CM code S40 represents “Superficial injury of shoulder and upper arm”. It is classified under Chapter 19: Injury, Poisoning and Certain Other Consequences of External Causes and is a non-billable header code. Use a more specific child code for billing purposes.

No, S40 is a non-billable header code. You need to use one of its more specific child codes for billing. There are 4 child codes under S40.

S40 is in Chapter 19: Injury, Poisoning and Certain Other Consequences of External Causes (codes S00-T88).

S40 has Excludes1 notes indicating codes that cannot be used together with it, including: birth trauma (P10-P15); obstetric trauma (O70-O71).

S40 has 4 child codes, including: S40.0 (Contusion of shoulder and upper arm), S40.2 (Other superficial injuries of shoulder), S40.8 (Other superficial injuries of upper arm), S40.9 (Unspecified superficial injury of shoulder and upper arm).

Yes, when using S40, also report: any retained foreign body, if applicable (Z18.-).

S40 is linked to 1 UMLS Concept Unique Identifier: C0160840. The UMLS (Unified Medical Language System) integrates multiple biomedical vocabularies maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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S40 maps to the ICD-11 code: NC10.Z (Superficial injury of shoulder or upper arm, unspecified).