S75.22Major laceration of greater saphenous vein at hip and thigh level

S75.22 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for major laceration of greater saphenous vein at hip and thigh level. It belongs to category S75 (injury of blood vessels at hip and thigh level), 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 S75.2 (injury of greater saphenous vein at hip and thigh level), S75.22 is specifically for major laceration of greater saphenous vein at hip and thigh level. Related codes cover unspecified injury of greater saphenous vein at hip and thigh level (S75.20), minor laceration of greater saphenous vein at hip and thigh level (S75.21) and other specified injury of greater saphenous vein at hip and thigh level (S75.29).

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.