Other specified injury of femoral vein at hip and thigh level

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:

S75.191 Other specified injury of femoral vein at hip and thigh level, right leg (also a header)
S75.192 Other specified injury of femoral vein at hip and thigh level, left leg (also a header)
S75.199 Other specified injury of femoral vein at hip and thigh level, unspecified leg (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.

FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Other specified injury of femoral vein at hip and thigh level

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 S75 Injury of blood vessels at hip and thigh level

Seventh character required

The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S75

Excludes2 - not included here

injury of blood vessels at lower leg level (S85.-)
injury of popliteal artery (S85.0)

Code also

any associated open wound (S71.-)

Inherited from the S70-S79 section Injuries to the hip and thigh (S70-S79)

Excludes2 - not included here

burns and corrosions (T20-T32)
frostbite (T33-T34)
snake bite (T63.0-)
venomous insect bite or sting (T63.4-)

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.

Injury > chest
Injury > hip > blood vessel
Injury > interscapular area
Injury > leg > blood vessel
Injury > thigh > blood vessel
Injury > blood vessel NEC > thigh
Injury > blood vessel NEC > leg > thigh
Injury > blood vessel NEC > limb > lower
Injury > blood vessel NEC > hip > femoral vein
Injury > blood vessel NEC > femoral > vein > specified type NEC

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
S75.10	Unspecified injury of femoral vein at hip and thigh level	Not billable
S75.11	Minor laceration of femoral vein at hip and thigh level	Not billable
S75.12	Major laceration of femoral vein at hip and thigh level	Not billable