ICD-10-CM › S00-T88 › S20-S29 › S25.3 Injury of innominate or subclavian vein › S25.32

S25.32

Major laceration of innominate or subclavian 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:

  • S25.321 Major laceration of right innominate or subclavian vein (also a header)
  • S25.322 Major laceration of left innominate or subclavian vein (also a header)
  • S25.329 Major laceration of unspecified innominate or subclavian 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 innominate or subclavian 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 S25 Injury of blood vessels of thorax

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S25

Code also

  • any associated open wound (S21.-)

Inherited from the S20-S29 section Injuries to the thorax (S20-S29)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • burns and corrosions (T20-T32)
  • effects of foreign body in bronchus (T17.5)
  • effects of foreign body in esophagus (T18.1)
  • effects of foreign body in lung (T17.8)
  • effects of foreign body in trachea (T17.4)
  • frostbite (T33-T34)
  • injuries of axilla
  • injuries of clavicle
  • injuries of scapular region
  • injuries of shoulder
  • insect bite or sting, venomous (T63.4)

Includes

  • injuries of breast
  • injuries of chest (wall)
  • injuries of interscapular area

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
S25.30 Unspecified injury of innominate or subclavian vein Not billable
S25.31 Minor laceration of innominate or subclavian vein Not billable
S25.39 Other specified injury of innominate or subclavian vein Not billable