ICD-10-CM › S00-T88 › T79 › T79 Certain early complications of... › T79.2
Traumatic secondary and recurrent hemorrhage and seroma
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:
- T79.2XXA Traumatic secondary and recurrent hemorrhage and seroma, initial encounter
- T79.2XXD Traumatic secondary and recurrent hemorrhage and seroma, subsequent encounter
- T79.2XXS Traumatic secondary and recurrent hemorrhage and seroma, sequela
This code requires a seventh character. See the rule below.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2014 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.
- FY2014 Added to the draft code set draft Traumatic secondary and recurrent hemorrhage and seroma
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 T79 Certain early complications of trauma, not elsewhere classified
Seventh character required
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category T79
Excludes2 - not included here
- acute respiratory distress syndrome (J80)
- complications occurring during or following medical procedures (T80-T88)
- complications of surgical and medical care NEC (T80-T88)
- newborn respiratory distress syndrome (P22.0)
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.
- Seroma > traumatic, secondary and recurrent
- Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic > recurring, following initial hemorrhage at time of injury
- Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic > secondary > following initial hemorrhage at time of injury
- Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic > traumatic - code to specific injury > recurring or secondary
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| T79.0 | Air embolism (traumatic) | Not billable |
| T79.1 | Fat embolism (traumatic) | Not billable |
| T79.4 | Traumatic shock | Not billable |
| T79.5 | Traumatic anuria | Not billable |
| T79.6 | Traumatic ischemia of muscle | Not billable |
| T79.7 | Traumatic subcutaneous emphysema | Not billable |
| T79.8 | Other early complications of trauma | Not billable |
| T79.9 | Unspecified early complication of trauma | Not billable |
| T79.A | Traumatic compartment syndrome | Not billable |