S70.3Other superficial injuries of thigh

S70.3 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for other superficial injuries of thigh. It belongs to category S70 (superficial injury of hip and thigh), block S70-S79 (injuries to the hip and thigh) 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 6 subcodes must be used instead.

Within S70, choose S70.3 (Other superficial injuries of thigh) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: contusion of hip (S70.0), contusion of thigh (S70.1), other superficial injuries of hip (S70.2) and unspecified superficial injury of hip and thigh (S70.9).

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.