ICD-10-CM › S00-T88 › S80-S89 › S87.82 Crushing injury of left lower leg › S87.82XA
Crushing injury of left lower leg, initial encounter
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
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 Crushing injury of left lower leg, initial encounter
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 S87 Crushing injury of lower leg
Seventh character required
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S87
Excludes2 - not included here
- crushing injury of ankle and foot (S97.-)
Use additional code
- code(s) for all associated injuries
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 > crushing
- Cave-in, injury > crushing
- Crush, crushed, crushing > lower > leg
- Crush, crushed, crushing > extremity > lower > below knee
- Crush, crushed, crushing > leg
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| S87.82XD | Crushing injury of left lower leg, subsequent encounter | Valid |
| S87.82XS | Crushing injury of left lower leg, sequela | Valid |