ICD-10-CM › I00-I99 › I80-I89 › I83.2 Varicose veins of lower... › I83.21
Varicose veins of right lower extremity with both ulcer and inflammation
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:
- I83.211 Varicose veins of right lower extremity with both ulcer of thigh and inflammation
- I83.212 Varicose veins of right lower extremity with both ulcer of calf and inflammation
- I83.213 Varicose veins of right lower extremity with both ulcer of ankle and inflammation
- I83.214 Varicose veins of right lower extremity with both ulcer of heel and midfoot and inflammation
- I83.215 Varicose veins of right lower extremity with both ulcer other part of foot and inflammation
- I83.218 Varicose veins of right lower extremity with both ulcer of other part of lower extremity and inflammation
- I83.219 Varicose veins of right lower extremity with both ulcer of unspecified site and inflammation
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 right lower extremity with both ulcer and inflammation
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 53 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| I83.20 | Varicose veins of unspecified lower extremity with both ulcer and inflammation | Not billable |
| I83.22 | Varicose veins of left lower extremity with both ulcer and inflammation | Not billable |