ICD-10-CM › I00-I99 › I80-I89 › I83.22 Varicose veins of left lower... › I83.229
Varicose veins of left lower extremity with both ulcer of unspecified site and inflammation
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
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 Varicose veins of left lower extremity with both ulcer of unspecified site 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
- Phlebectasia
- Tortuous > vein
- Varicose > vein
- Tumor > varicose
- Varicose > tumor
- Aneurysm > venous
- Varicose > vessel
- Ulcus > hypostaticum
- Rupture, ruptured > varix
- Rupture, ruptured > varicose vein
- Varicosis, varicosities, varicosity
- Varicose > ulcer > inflamed or infected
- Dermatitis > stasis > with > varicose ulcer
- Stasis > dermatitis > with > varicose ulcer
- Infection, infected, infective > varicose veins
- Incompetency, incompetent, incompetence > vein, venous
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > hypostaticum
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > skin > varicose
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > varicose > inflamed or infected
- Varix > leg > left > with > ulcer > with inflammation
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| I83.221 | Varicose veins of left lower extremity with both ulcer of thigh and inflammation | Valid |
| I83.222 | Varicose veins of left lower extremity with both ulcer of calf and inflammation | Valid |
| I83.223 | Varicose veins of left lower extremity with both ulcer of ankle and inflammation | Valid |
| I83.224 | Varicose veins of left lower extremity with both ulcer of heel and midfoot and inflammation | Valid |
| I83.225 | Varicose veins of left lower extremity with both ulcer other part of foot and inflammation | Valid |
| I83.228 | Varicose veins of left lower extremity with both ulcer of other part of lower extremity and inflammation | Valid |