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Category · FY2027

L81 Other disorders of pigmentation

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L81 is not billable. The category heads 10 billable codes in FY2027: the 10 codes directly below it.

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Where it sits

  1. Chapter 12 Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (L00-L99)
  2. L80-L99 Other disorders of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (L80-L99)
  3. L81 Other disorders of pigmentation
Billable codes
10
Subdivisions
10
CC / MCC codes
0 / 0
HCC V28 codes
0
New FY2027
0
Index entries
48

Codes in L81

  1. L81.0
    Postinflammatory hyperpigmentation
    Billable
  2. L81.1
    Chloasma
    Billable
  3. L81.2
    Freckles
    Billable
  4. L81.3
    Café au lait spots
    Billable
  5. L81.4
    Other melanin hyperpigmentation
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 1

    Inclusion terms

    • Lentigo
  6. L81.5
    Leukoderma, not elsewhere classified
    Billable
  7. L81.6
    Other disorders of diminished melanin formation
    Billable
  8. L81.7
    Pigmented purpuric dermatosis
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 1

    Inclusion terms

    • Angioma serpiginosum
  9. L81.8
    Other specified disorders of pigmentation
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 2

    Inclusion terms

    • Iron pigmentation
    • Tattoo pigmentation
  10. L81.9
    Disorder of pigmentation, unspecified
    Billable

Sources of each column.

Instructions

At L81

Excludes1

  • birthmark NOS (Q82.5) Q82.5
  • Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (Q85.89) Q85.89

Excludes2

  • nevus - see Alphabetical Index

Notes that also apply

Chapter 12 instructions (Excludes2 10): printed on the chapter 12 page.

Index entries

  • Chloasma (skin) (idiopathic) (symptomatic) → L81.1
  • Melasma → L81.1
  • Ephelis, ephelides → L81.2
  • Freckle(s) → L81.2
  • Café, au lait spots → L81.3
  • Lentigo (congenital) → L81.4
  • Melanoderma, melanodermia → L81.4
  • Melanosis → L81.4
  • Riehl's melanosis → L81.4
  • Leukoderma, leukodermia NEC → L81.5
  • Poikiloderma → L81.6
  • Gougerot's syndrome (trisymptomatic) → L81.7
  • Gougerot-Blum syndrome (pigmented purpuric lichenoid dermatitis) → L81.7
  • Schamberg's disease (progressive pigmentary dermatosis) → L81.7
  • Arsenical pigmentation → L81.8
  • Tattoo (mark) → L81.8
  • Dyschromia (skin) → L81.9
  • Pigmentation (abnormal) (anomaly) → L81.9
  • Hyperpigmentationpostinflammatory → L81.0
  • Spots, spotting (in) (of)café, au lait → L81.3
  • Hyperpigmentationmelanin NEC → L81.4
  • MelanosisRiehl's → L81.4
  • Melanosistar → L81.4
  • Melanosistoxic → L81.4
  • Spots, spotting (in) (of)liver → L81.4
  • Pigmentation (abnormal) (anomaly)diminished melanin formation NEC → L81.6
  • Angiomaserpiginosum → L81.7
  • Dermatitis (eczematous)Schamberg's → L81.7
  • Dermatosispurpuric, pigmented → L81.7
  • Majocchi'sdisease → L81.7
  • Purpuraannularis telangiectodes → L81.7
  • Purpuratelangiectasia annularis → L81.7
  • SyndromeGougerot-Blum → L81.7
  • Marktattoo → L81.8
  • Metalpigmentation → L81.8
  • Pigmentation (abnormal) (anomaly)iron → L81.8
  • Pigmentation (abnormal) (anomaly)metals → L81.8
  • Pigmentation (abnormal) (anomaly)tattoo → L81.8
  • Anomaly, anomalous (congenital) (unspecified type)pigmentation → L81.9
  • Dermatosispigmentary → L81.9

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