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S75.809S

Unspecified injury of other blood vessels at hip and thigh level, unspecified leg, sequela

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Unspecified injury of other blood vessels at hip and thigh level, unspecified leg, sequela

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
S75.809A Unspecified injury of other blood vessels at hip and thigh level, unspecified leg, initial encounter Valid
S75.809D Unspecified injury of other blood vessels at hip and thigh level, unspecified leg, subsequent encounter Valid