ICD-10-CM › I00-I99 › I80-I89 › I83.0 Varicose veins of lower... › I83.00
Varicose veins of unspecified lower extremity with ulcer
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.
Submit one of these 7 more specific codes instead:
- I83.001 Varicose veins of unspecified lower extremity with ulcer of thigh
- I83.002 Varicose veins of unspecified lower extremity with ulcer of calf
- I83.003 Varicose veins of unspecified lower extremity with ulcer of ankle
- I83.004 Varicose veins of unspecified lower extremity with ulcer of heel and midfoot
- I83.005 Varicose veins of unspecified lower extremity with ulcer other part of foot
- I83.008 Varicose veins of unspecified lower extremity with ulcer other part of lower leg
- I83.009 Varicose veins of unspecified lower extremity with ulcer of unspecified site
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2012 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.
- FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Varicose veins of unspecified lower extremity with ulcer
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 I83 Varicose veins of lower extremities
Excludes2 - not included here
- varicose veins complicating pregnancy (O22.0-)
- varicose veins complicating the puerperium (O87.4)
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.
- Varices
- Crural ulcer
- Phlebectasia
- Stasis > ulcer
- Stasis > eczema
- Tortuous > vein
- Varicose > vein
- Tumor > varicose
- Varicose > tumor
- Varicose > ulcer
- Aneurysm > venous
- Eczema > varicose
- Varicose > eczema
- Varicose > vessel
- Eczema > hypostatic
- Phlebitis > varicose
- Ulcus > hypostaticum
- Dermatitis > varicose
- Varicose > dermatitis
- Rupture, ruptured > varix
- Rupture, ruptured > varicose vein
- Varicosis, varicosities, varicosity
- Dermatitis > due to > varicose veins
- Dermatitis > hypostatic, hypostatica
- Eczema > stasis > with varicose veins
- Varicose > ulcer > inflamed or infected
- Dermatitis > stasis > with > varicose ulcer
- Dermatitis > stasis > with > varicose veins
- Stasis > dermatitis > with > varicose ulcer
- Stasis > dermatitis > with > varicose veins
- Lipodermatosclerosis > with > varicose veins
- Varix > leg > with > inflammation > with ulcer
- Infection, infected, infective > varicose veins
- Varix > leg > left > with > inflammation > with ulcer
- Incompetency, incompetent, incompetence > vein, venous
- Varix > leg > right > with > inflammation > with ulcer
- Lipodermatosclerosis > with > varicose veins > ulcerated
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > leg
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > toe
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > foot
Showing 40 of 54 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| I83.01 | Varicose veins of right lower extremity with ulcer | Not billable |
| I83.02 | Varicose veins of left lower extremity with ulcer | Not billable |