S40.2Other superficial injuries of shoulder

S40.2 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for other superficial injuries of shoulder. It belongs to category S40 (superficial injury of shoulder and upper arm), block S40-S49 (injuries to the shoulder and upper arm) 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 6 subcodes must be used instead.

Within S40, choose S40.2 (Other superficial injuries of shoulder) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: contusion of shoulder and upper arm (S40.0), other superficial injuries of upper arm (S40.8) and unspecified superficial injury of shoulder and upper arm (S40.9).

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.