What is the ICD-10 Code for Spinal Cord Injury? The ICD-10 Code for spinal cord injury is S14. 109A.
129 for Central cord syndrome at unspecified level of cervical spinal cord is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes .
T14.90ICD-10 Code for Injury, unspecified- T14. 90- Codify by AAPC.
ICD-9-CM is the official system of assigning codes to diagnoses and procedures associated with hospital utilization in the United States. The ICD-9 was used to code and classify mortality data from death certificates until 1999, when use of ICD-10 for mortality coding started.
Definition. Central cord syndrome is the most common form of incomplete spinal cord injury characterized by impairment in the arms and hands and to a lesser extent in the legs. The brain's ability to send and receive signals to and from parts of the body below the site of injury is reduced but not entirely blocked.
Occasionally, a spinal nerve root is subjected to compression or irritation due to several factors. This compression is known as neural/nerve root impingement and can cause high discomfort such as loss of sensation and weakness.
Injuries are typically coded from Chapter 19 of the ICD-10 manual, “Injury, Poisoning, and Certain Other Consequences of External Causes” (codes S00-T88).
Damage inflicted on the body as the direct or indirect result of an external force, with or without disruption of structural continuity.
The injury diagnosis codes (or nature of injury codes) are the ICD codes used to classify injuries by body region (for example, head, leg, chest) and nature of injury (for example, fracture, laceration, solid organ injury, poisoning).
CMS will continue to maintain the ICD-9 code website with the posted files. These are the codes providers (physicians, hospitals, etc.) and suppliers must use when submitting claims to Medicare for payment.
ICD-9 uses mostly numeric codes with only occasional E and V alphanumeric codes. Plus, only three-, four- and five-digit codes are valid. ICD-10 uses entirely alphanumeric codes and has valid codes of up to seven digits.
Most ICD-9 codes are three digits to the left of a decimal point and one or two digits to the right of one. For example: 250.0 is diabetes with no complications. 530.81 is gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).