959.5 FINGER INJURY NOS


Code Information

Diagnosis Code: 959.5

Short Description: Finger injury NOS

Long Description: Finger injury

Code Classification:

  • Injury and poisoning (800–999)
    • Certain traumatic complications and unspecified injuries (958-959)
      • 959 Injury, other and unspecified
        • 959.5 Finger injury NOS

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM


References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 959.5 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries
  • Injury 959.9
    • fingers(s) (nail) 959.5
    • nail
      • finger 959.5
    • phalanges
      • hand 959.5
    • subungual
      • fingers 959.5
    • thumb(s) (nail) 959.5

Crosswalk Information

The code 959.5 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):
ICD-9 Code ICD-10 Code ICD-10 Description
959.5 Right Arrow S69.80XA Oth injuries of unsp wrist, hand and finger(s), init encntr
S69.90XA Unsp injury of unsp wrist, hand and finger(s), init encntr
This ICD-9 to ICD-10 data is based on the 2018 General Equivalency Mapping (GEM) files published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for informational purposes only. The data is not an ICD-10 conversion tool and doesn’t guarantee clinical accuracy.

Similar Codes

ICD-9 Code ICD-9 Description
959.01 Head injury, unspecified
959.09 Injury of face and neck
959.11 Other injury of chest wall
959.12 Other injury of abdomen
959.13 Fracture of corpus cavernosum penis
959.14 Other injury of external genitals
959.19 Other injury of other sites of trunk
959.2 Shoulder and upper arm injury
959.3 Elbow, forearm, and wrist injury
959.4 Hand, except finger injury
959.6 Hip and thigh injury
959.7 Knee, leg, ankle, and foot injury
959.8 Other specified sites, including multiple injury
959.9 Unspecified site injury


This page was last updated on: 10/1/2014