S71.11Laceration without foreign body of thigh

S71.11 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for laceration without foreign body of thigh. It belongs to category S71 (open wound 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 3 subcodes must be used instead.

Within S71.1, choose S71.11 (Laceration without foreign body of thigh) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: unspecified open wound of thigh (S71.10), laceration with foreign body of thigh (S71.12), puncture wound without foreign body of thigh (S71.13), puncture wound with foreign body of thigh (S71.14) and open bite of thigh (S71.15).

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.