Acute embolism and thrombosis of left femoral vein

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.

FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Embolism and thrombosis of left femoral vein
FY2010 Draft description revised draft ~~Embolism and thrombosis of left femoral vein~~ Acute embolism and thrombosis of left femoral vein

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.

Embolism > vein > femoral
Thrombosis, thrombotic > vein > femoral

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
I82.411	Acute embolism and thrombosis of right femoral vein	Valid
I82.413	Acute embolism and thrombosis of femoral vein, bilateral	Valid
I82.419	Acute embolism and thrombosis of unspecified femoral vein	Valid