S10.17Other superficial bite of throat

S10.17 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for other superficial bite of throat. It belongs to category S10 (superficial injury of neck), block S10-S19 (injuries to the neck) and chapter 19 (injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes). It is a header code, so it can't be reported by itself; one of its 3 subcodes must be used instead.

Within S10.1, choose S10.17 (Other superficial bite of throat) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: unspecified superficial injuries of throat (S10.10), abrasion of throat (S10.11), Blister (nonthermal) of throat (S10.12), external constriction of part of throat (S10.14), superficial foreign body of throat (S10.15) and insect bite (nonvenomous) of throat (S10.16).

Codes in this range require a 7th character: A for initial encounter, D for subsequent encounter and S for sequela. Use placeholder "X" characters to fill any empty positions before the 7th character.

Don't report S10.17 together with the conditions in its Excludes1 note: open bite of throat (S11.85).

It has been part of ICD-10-CM since the code set took effect on October 1, 2015 and hasn't changed since.