Acute embolism and thrombosis of other specified deep vein of left 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 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 other deep vein of left lower extremity
FY2010 Draft description revised draft ~~Embolism and thrombosis of other deep vein of left lower extremity~~ Acute embolism and thrombosis of other deep vein of left lower extremity
FY2011 Draft description revised draft ~~Acute embolism and thrombosis of other deep vein of left lower extremity~~ Acute embolism and thrombosis of other specified deep vein of left 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.

dvt
Milk-leg
Embolism > leg
Thrombosis, thrombotic > leg
Thrombosis, thrombotic > deep
Embolism > extremities > lower
Thrombosis, thrombotic > lower limb
Embolism > vein > lower extremity > deep > specified NEC
Thrombosis, thrombotic > vein > lower extremity > deep > specified NEC

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
I82.491	Acute embolism and thrombosis of other specified deep vein of right lower extremity	Valid
I82.493	Acute embolism and thrombosis of other specified deep vein of lower extremity, bilateral	Valid
I82.499	Acute embolism and thrombosis of other specified deep vein of unspecified lower extremity	Valid