S85.3

S85.3: Injury of greater saphenous vein at lower leg level

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

S85.3 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for injury of greater saphenous vein at lower leg level. 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 S85

A: initial encounter
D: subsequent encounter
S: sequela

Inclusion terms

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

Injury of greater saphenous vein NOS
Injury of saphenous vein NOS

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above S85.3

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on S85: Injury of blood vessels at lower leg level

injury of blood vessels at ankle and foot level (S95.-)

Other codes that can never be billed with S85.3

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

S75.2Injury of greater saphenous vein at hip and thigh level

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 S85.3

3 child codes. Green means billable.