S60.5
Other superficial injuries of hand
Not billable — category only FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 6 never code together
S60-S69block
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
7th character 3
A initial encounter
D subsequent encounter
S sequela
Instructional notes 3
S00-T88chapter
Notes
- Use secondary code(s) from Chapter 20, External causes of morbidity, to indicate cause of injury. Codes within the T section that include the external cause do not require an additional external cause code
- The chapter uses the S-section for coding different types of injuries related to single body regions and the T-section to cover injuries to unspecified body regions as well as poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes.
Use additional code
- code to identify any retained foreign body, if applicable (Z18.-)Z18.-
Index entries leading here filed at null
No alphabetic index entry points at this code.
Alongside this code 7 same parent — S60
S60.0 Contusion of finger without damage to nail category S60.1 Contusion of finger with damage to nail category S60.2 Contusion of wrist and hand category S60.3 Other superficial injuries of thumb category S60.4 Other superficial injuries of other fingers category S60.8 Other superficial injuries of wrist category S60.9 Unspecified superficial injury of wrist, hand and fingers category
Subordinate codes 6
Additional references
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