S74.21: Injury of cutaneous sensory nerve at hip and thigh level, right leg

Description revised · FY2026

Not billable: this is a header. Use one of the more specific codes below.

• Description changed effective October 1, 2025. Before that it read: Injury of cutaneous sensory nerve at hip and high level, right leg.

Code breakdown

Coding notes

Excludes2 (from S74)

• injury of nerves at ankle and foot level (S94.-)
• injury of nerves at lower leg level (S84.-)

Code also (from S74)

• any associated open wound (S71.-)

7th character (from S74)

• The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S74

7th characters (category S74)

• A initial encounter
• D subsequent encounter
• S sequela

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