Economic Impact of the Opioid Epidemic: 55 billion in health and social costs related to. prescription opioid abuse each year1. 20 billion in emergency department and. inpatient care for opioid poisonings2. Source: Pain Med. 2011;12(4):657-67.1. 2013;14(10):1534-47.2.
1 S13.4XXA is a billable ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes. 2  Reimbursement claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015 require the use of ICD-10-CM codes. 3  This is the American ICD-10-CM version of S13.4XXA. 4  Other international ICD-10 versions may differ.
Cervical spine fractures are reported with codes from category S12, Fracture of the cervical vertebra and other parts of the neck. There are specific codes for the more common types of fractures of each cervical vertebra. In order to assign the most specific codes at each level, the following information is required: