ICD-10-CM › S00-T88 › S10-S19 › S15.2 Injury of external jugular vein › S15.22

S15.22

Major laceration of external jugular vein

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:

  • S15.221 Major laceration of right external jugular vein (also a header)
  • S15.222 Major laceration of left external jugular vein (also a header)
  • S15.229 Major laceration of unspecified external jugular vein (also a header)

This code requires a seventh character. See the rule below.

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.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Major laceration of external jugular 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 S15 Injury of blood vessels at neck level

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S15

Code also

  • any associated open wound (S11.-)

Inherited from the S10-S19 section Injuries to the neck (S10-S19)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • burns and corrosions (T20-T32)
  • effects of foreign body in esophagus (T18.1)
  • effects of foreign body in larynx (T17.3)
  • effects of foreign body in pharynx (T17.2)
  • effects of foreign body in trachea (T17.4)
  • frostbite (T33-T34)
  • insect bite or sting, venomous (T63.4)

Includes

  • injuries of nape
  • injuries of supraclavicular region
  • injuries of throat

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
S15.20 Unspecified injury of external jugular vein Not billable
S15.21 Minor laceration of external jugular vein Not billable
S15.29 Other specified injury of external jugular vein Not billable