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S35.4

Injury of renal blood vessels

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:

  • S35.40 Unspecified injury of renal blood vessel (also a header)
  • S35.41 Laceration of renal blood vessel (also a header)
  • S35.49 Other specified injury of renal blood vessel (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 Injury of renal blood vessels

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 S35 Injury of blood vessels at abdomen, lower back and pelvis level

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S35

Code also

  • any associated open wound (S31.-)

Inherited from the S30-S39 section Injuries to the abdomen, lower back, lumbar spine, pelvis and external genitals (S30-S39)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • burns and corrosions (T20-T32)
  • effects of foreign body in anus and rectum (T18.5)
  • effects of foreign body in genitourinary tract (T19.-)
  • effects of foreign body in stomach, small intestine and colon (T18.2-T18.4)
  • frostbite (T33-T34)
  • insect bite or sting, venomous (T63.4)

Includes

  • injuries to the abdominal wall
  • injuries to the anus
  • injuries to the buttock
  • injuries to the external genitalia
  • injuries to the flank
  • injuries to the groin

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
S35.0 Injury of abdominal aorta Not billable
S35.1 Injury of inferior vena cava Not billable
S35.2 Injury of celiac or mesenteric artery and branches Not billable
S35.3 Injury of portal or splenic vein and branches Not billable
S35.5 Injury of iliac blood vessels Not billable
S35.8 Injury of other blood vessels at abdomen, lower back and pelvis level Not billable
S35.9 Injury of unspecified blood vessel at abdomen, lower back and pelvis level Not billable