S60.37Other superficial bite of thumb

S60.37 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for other superficial bite of thumb. It belongs to category S60 (superficial injury of wrist, hand and fingers), block S60-S69 (injuries to the wrist, hand and fingers) 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 S60.3, choose S60.37 (Other superficial bite of thumb) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: abrasion of thumb (S60.31), Blister (nonthermal) of thumb (S60.32), external constriction of thumb (S60.34), superficial foreign body of thumb (S60.35), insect bite (nonvenomous) of thumb (S60.36) and other superficial injuries of thumb (S60.39).

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 S60.37 together with the conditions in its Excludes1 note: open bite of thumb (S61.05-, S61.15-).

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