S00
ICD-10Non-billable categorySuperficial injury of head
Official ICD-10-CM descriptor (FY2026)
Superficial injury of head
S00 is a category heading, not a billable code. CMS does not accept it on a claim; report one of the more specific codes beneath it.
Excludes1
Not coded here. An Excludes1 code should never be reported at the same time as the code above it.
- diffuse cerebral contusion (S06.2-)
- focal cerebral contusion (S06.3-)
- injury of eye and orbit (S05.-)
- open wound of head (S01.-)
7th character
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S00
Permitted 7th characters
| A | initial encounter |
| D | subsequent encounter |
| S | sequela |
More specific codes under S00
- S00.0Superficial injury of scalpcategory
- S00.1Contusion of eyelid and periocular areacategory
- S00.2Oth and unsp superfic injuries of eyelid and periocular areacategory
- S00.3Superficial injury of nosecategory
- S00.4Superficial injury of earcategory
- S00.5Superficial injury of lip and oral cavitycategory
- S00.8Superficial injury of other parts of headcategory
- S00.9Superficial injury of unspecified part of headcategory
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ICD-10-CM FY2026. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) / National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), “2026 ICD-10-CM Code Descriptions in Tabular Order” (icd10cm_order_2026.txt). Download the original file from cms.gov. Public domain (US Government work). Descriptors, billable flags and instructional notes on this page are reproduced from that file without modification. Krasyn adds no clinical guidance.