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I82.409

Acute embolism and thrombosis of unspecified deep veins of unspecified lower 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 2011 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. FY2011 Added to the draft code set draft Acute embolism and thrombosis of unspecified deep veins of unspecified lower 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 I82 Other venous embolism and thrombosis

Excludes2 - not included here

  • venous embolism and thrombosis (of):
  • cerebral (I63.6, I67.6)
  • coronary (I21-I25)
  • intracranial and intraspinal, septic or NOS (G08)
  • intracranial, nonpyogenic (I67.6)
  • intraspinal, nonpyogenic (G95.1)
  • mesenteric (K55.0-)
  • portal (I81)
  • pulmonary (I26.-)

Code first

  • venous embolism and thrombosis complicating:
  • abortion, ectopic or molar pregnancy (O00-O07, O08.7)
  • pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O22.-, O87.-)

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
I82.401 Acute embolism and thrombosis of unspecified deep veins of right lower extremity Valid
I82.402 Acute embolism and thrombosis of unspecified deep veins of left lower extremity Valid
I82.403 Acute embolism and thrombosis of unspecified deep veins of lower extremity, bilateral Valid