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I70.798

Other atherosclerosis of other type of bypass graft(s) of the extremities, other extremity

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Other atherosclerosis of other type of bypass graft(s) of the extremities, other extremity

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.

Showing 40 of 85 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
I70.791 Other atherosclerosis of other type of bypass graft(s) of the extremities, right leg Valid
I70.792 Other atherosclerosis of other type of bypass graft(s) of the extremities, left leg Valid
I70.793 Other atherosclerosis of other type of bypass graft(s) of the extremities, bilateral legs Valid
I70.799 Other atherosclerosis of other type of bypass graft(s) of the extremities, unspecified extremity Valid