S78.022

S78.022: Partial traumatic amputation at left hip joint

Non-billable headerICD-10-CMleft

S78.022 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for partial traumatic amputation at left hip joint. 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 S78

A: initial encounter
D: subsequent encounter
S: sequela

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above S78.022

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on S78: Traumatic amputation of hip and thigh

traumatic amputation of knee (S88.0-)

Other codes that can never be billed with S78.022

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

S71Open wound of hip and thigh
S72Fracture of femur

Risk adjustment

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

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead S78.022

3 child codes. Green means billable.