S65.09Other specified injury of ulnar artery at wrist and hand level

S65.09 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for other specified injury of ulnar artery at wrist and hand level. It belongs to category S65 (injury of blood vessels at wrist and hand level), block S60-S69 (injuries to the wrist, hand and fingers) and chapter 19 (injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes). It is a header code, so it can't be reported by itself; one of its 3 subcodes must be used instead.

Within S65.0, choose S65.09 (Other specified injury of ulnar artery at wrist and hand level) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: unspecified injury of ulnar artery at wrist and hand level (S65.00) and laceration of ulnar artery at wrist and hand level (S65.01).

Codes in this range require a 7th character: A for initial encounter, D for subsequent encounter and S for sequela. Use placeholder "X" characters to fill any empty positions before the 7th character.

It has been part of ICD-10-CM since the code set took effect on October 1, 2015 and hasn't changed since.