ICD-10-CM › S00-T88 › S80-S89 › S85.1 Injury of tibial artery › S85.10
Unspecified injury of unspecified tibial artery
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.
Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:
- S85.101 Unspecified injury of unspecified tibial artery, right leg (also a header)
- S85.102 Unspecified injury of unspecified tibial artery, left leg (also a header)
- S85.109 Unspecified injury of unspecified tibial artery, 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 Unspecified injury of unspecified tibial artery
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 S85 Injury of blood vessels at lower leg level
Seventh character required
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S85
Excludes2 - not included here
- injury of blood vessels at ankle and foot level (S95.-)
Code also
- any associated open wound (S81.-)
Inherited from the S80-S89 section Injuries to the knee and lower leg (S80-S89)
Excludes2 - not included here
- burns and corrosions (T20-T32)
- frostbite (T33-T34)
- injuries of ankle and foot, except fracture of ankle and malleolus (S90-S99)
- insect bite or sting, venomous (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 > leg > tibial artery
- Injury > blood vessel NEC > tibial artery
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| S85.11 | Laceration of unspecified tibial artery | Not billable |
| S85.12 | Other specified injury of unspecified tibial artery | Not billable |
| S85.13 | Unspecified injury of anterior tibial artery | Not billable |
| S85.14 | Laceration of anterior tibial artery | Not billable |
| S85.15 | Other specified injury of anterior tibial artery | Not billable |
| S85.16 | Unspecified injury of posterior tibial artery | Not billable |
| S85.17 | Laceration of posterior tibial artery | Not billable |
| S85.18 | Other specified injury of posterior tibial artery | Not billable |