S35.11

S35.11: Minor laceration of inferior vena cava

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

S35.11 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for minor laceration of inferior vena cava. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below. This code also requires a 7th character before it is complete.

This code requires a 7th character

The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S35

A: initial encounter
D: subsequent encounter
S: sequela

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Incomplete transection of inferior vena cava
Laceration of inferior vena cava NOS
Superficial laceration of inferior vena cava

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above S35.11

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on S35.1: Injury of inferior vena cava

injury of vena cava NOS (S25.2)

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Injury›vena cava›inferior›laceration(minor) (superficial)

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead S35.11

3 child codes. Green means billable.