S89.13Salter-Harris Type III physeal fracture of lower end of tibia

S89.13 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for Salter-Harris Type III physeal fracture of lower end of tibia. It belongs to category S89 (other and unspecified injuries of lower leg), block S80-S89 (injuries to the knee and lower leg) 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 S89.1 (physeal fracture of lower end of tibia), S89.13 is specifically for Salter-Harris Type III physeal fracture of lower end of tibia. Related codes cover unspecified physeal fracture of lower end of tibia (S89.10), Salter-Harris Type I physeal fracture of lower end of tibia (S89.11), Salter-Harris Type II physeal fracture of lower end of tibia (S89.12), Salter-Harris Type IV physeal fracture of lower end of tibia (S89.14) and other physeal fracture of lower end of tibia (S89.19).

Codes in this range require a 7th character: A for initial encounter for closed fracture, D for subsequent encounter for fracture with routine healing, G for subsequent encounter for fracture with delayed healing, K for subsequent encounter for fracture with nonunion, P for subsequent encounter for fracture with malunion and S for sequela. Use placeholder "X" characters to fill any empty positions before the 7th character.

Don't report S89.13 together with the conditions in its Excludes1 note: fracture of medial malleolus (adult) (S82.5-).

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