S24.149Brown-Sequard syndrome at unspecified level of thoracic spinal cord

S24.149 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for Brown-Sequard syndrome at unspecified level of thoracic spinal cord. It belongs to category S24 (injury of nerves and spinal cord at thorax level), block S20-S29 (injuries to the thorax) 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 S24.14, choose S24.149 (unspecified level of thoracic spinal cord) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: T1 level of thoracic spinal cord (S24.141), T2-T6 level of thoracic spinal cord (S24.142), T7-T10 level of thoracic spinal cord (S24.143) and T11-T12 level of thoracic spinal cord (S24.144).

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.

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