ICD-10-CM › I00-I99 › I70-I79 › I70.54 Atherosclerosis of nonautologous... › I70.549
Atherosclerosis of nonautologous biological bypass graft(s) of the left leg with ulceration of unspecified site
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Atherosclerosis of nonautologous biological bypass graft(s) of the left leg with ulceration of unspecified site
Official coding rules
Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.
Inherited from I70 Atherosclerosis
Excludes2 - not included here
- arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease (I25.1-)
- arteriosclerotic heart disease (I25.1-)
- atheroembolism (I75.-)
- cerebral atherosclerosis (I67.2)
- coronary atherosclerosis (I25.1-)
- mesenteric atherosclerosis (K55.1)
- precerebral atherosclerosis (I67.2)
- primary pulmonary atherosclerosis (I27.0)
Use additional code
- code to identify:
- exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22)
- history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891)
- occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31)
- tobacco dependence (F17.-)
- tobacco use (Z72.0)
Includes
- arteriolosclerosis
- arterial degeneration
- arteriosclerosis
- arteriosclerotic vascular disease
- arteriovascular degeneration
- atheroma
- endarteritis deformans or obliterans
- senile arteritis
- senile endarteritis
- vascular degeneration
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Arteriolith
- Mesarteritis
- Atheromatosis
- Angiosclerosis
- Arteriofibrosis
- Atherosclerosis
- Thromboarteritis
- Arteriolosclerosis
- Arteritis > senile
- Hardening > artery
- Arteriolar sclerosis
- Arteritis > deformans
- Endarteritis > senile
- Ossification > artery
- Arteritis > obliterans
- Atheroma, atheromatous
- Calcification > artery
- Calcification > medial
- Destruction, destructive
- Endarteritis > deformans
- Change > arteriosclerotic
- Damage > arteriosclerotic
- Endarteritis > obliterans
- Plaque > artery, arterial
- Calcification > Mönckeberg's
- Occlusion, occluded > artery
- Gangrene, gangrenous > senile
- Sclerosis, sclerotic > senile
- Fibrosis, fibrotic > capillary
- Sclerosis, sclerotic > general
- Atheroma, atheromatous > artery
- Sclerosis, sclerotic > vascular
- Stenosis, stenotic > artery NEC
- Complication > aortofemoral graft
- Complication > femoral artery graft
- Ischemia, ischemic > limb, critical
- Sclerosis, sclerotic > Mönckeberg's
- Atrophy, atrophic > arteriosclerotic
- Disease, diseased > arteriosclerotic
- Atheroma, atheromatous > degeneration
Showing 40 of 86 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| I70.541 | Atherosclerosis of nonautologous biological bypass graft(s) of the left leg with ulceration of thigh | Valid |
| I70.542 | Atherosclerosis of nonautologous biological bypass graft(s) of the left leg with ulceration of calf | Valid |
| I70.543 | Atherosclerosis of nonautologous biological bypass graft(s) of the left leg with ulceration of ankle | Valid |
| I70.544 | Atherosclerosis of nonautologous biological bypass graft(s) of the left leg with ulceration of heel and midfoot | Valid |
| I70.545 | Atherosclerosis of nonautologous biological bypass graft(s) of the left leg with ulceration of other part of foot | Valid |
| I70.548 | Atherosclerosis of nonautologous biological bypass graft(s) of the left leg with ulceration of other part of lower leg | Valid |