ICD-10-CM › S00-T88 › S70-S79 › S77 Crushing injury of hip and thigh › S77.0

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:

• S77.00 Crushing injury of unspecified hip (also a header)
• S77.01 Crushing injury of right hip (also a header)
• S77.02 Crushing injury of left hip (also a header)

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

What has happened to this code

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 S77 Crushing injury of hip and thigh

Seventh character required

• The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S77

Excludes2 - not included here

• crushing injury of ankle and foot (S97.-)
• crushing injury of lower leg (S87.-)

Use additional code

• code(s) for all associated injuries

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 > crushing
• Cave-in, injury > crushing
• Crush, crushed, crushing > extremity > lower > hip
• Crush, crushed, crushing > hip

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
S77.1	Crushing injury of thigh	Not billable
S77.2	Crushing injury of hip with thigh	Not billable