S57 is the authoritative medical code for Crushing injury of elbow and forearm. This classification is used in medical billing and clinical recording to specify the clinical criteria for crushing injury of elbow and forearm (ICD-10-CM S57), ensuring healthcare documentation aligns with 2026 federal coding standards.
Billing Status: NO. This is a clinician non-billable / parent hierarchy grouping in the ICD-10-CM system.
Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for S57 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.
Conditions not covered by this code, but which may be reported alongside it when both are present.
Supplementary codes the tabular list directs you to add.
No. S57 (Crushing injury of elbow and forearm) is a non-billable ICD-10-CM category code. A more specific billable subcode must be selected based on clinical documentation.
Yes. The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S57; A: initial encounter; D: subsequent encounter; S: sequela.
Per Excludes2 instructions, S57 and the following may both be reported when both are present: crushing injury of wrist and hand (S67.-); burns and corrosions (T20-T32); frostbite (T33-T34); injuries of wrist and hand (S60-S69).
Use additional code(s) to specify: code(s) for all associated injuries.
Official ICD-10-CM classifications in the same code family as S57, with their registry titles.
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