S50.9Unspecified superficial injury of elbow and forearm

S50.9 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for unspecified superficial injury of elbow and forearm. It belongs to category S50 (superficial injury of elbow and forearm), block S50-S59 (injuries to the elbow and forearm) 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 2 subcodes must be used instead.

Within S50, choose S50.9 (Unspecified superficial injury of elbow and forearm) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: contusion of elbow (S50.0), contusion of forearm (S50.1), other superficial injuries of elbow (S50.3) and other superficial injuries of forearm (S50.8).

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.