Unspecified injury of left hip, 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.

FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Unspecified injury of left hip, 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 S79 Other and unspecified injuries of hip and thigh

Seventh character required

The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from subcategories S79.0 and S79.1

Note

A fracture not indicated as open or closed should be coded to closed

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 > hip

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
S79.912A	Unspecified injury of left hip, initial encounter	Valid
S79.912D	Unspecified injury of left hip, subsequent encounter	Valid