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L89.154
Billable

Pressure ulcer of sacral region, stage 4

Chapter 12: Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue

Inclusion Terms

2 items
  • Healing pressure ulcer of sacral region, stage 4
  • Pressure ulcer with necrosis of soft tissues through to underlying muscle, tendon, or bone, sacral region

Billable Code

L89.154 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.

Referenced in Diagnoses

Conditions that use this ICD-10 code in their documentation

View documentation for pressure ulcer sacrum
pressure ulcer sacrum
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Pressure Ulcer of Sacrum

View documentation for sacral decubitus ulcer
sacral decubitus ulcer
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Sacral Decubitus Ulcer

View documentation for sacral pressure sore
sacral pressure sore
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Pressure Ulcer of Sacral Region

View documentation for sacral pressure ulcer
sacral pressure ulcer
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Pressure Ulcer of Sacral Region

View documentation for sacral ulcer
sacral ulcer
Primary
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Pressure Ulcer of Sacral Region

View documentation for stage 4 sacral ulcer
stage 4 sacral ulcer
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Pressure ulcer of sacral region, stage 4

Additional Information from Parent Codes

The following information may apply to this code from its parent codes in the ICD-10 hierarchy. This information is important for proper coding and classification.

Inclusion Terms

2 items

From L89.15:

  • Pressure ulcer of coccyx
  • Pressure ulcer of tailbone

Includes

5 items

From L89:

  • bed sore
  • decubitus ulcer
  • plaster ulcer
  • pressure area
  • pressure sore

Excludes2

15 items

From L00-L99:

  • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
  • certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
  • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
  • congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
  • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
  • lipomelanotic reticulosis (I89.8)
  • neoplasms (C00-D49)
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
  • systemic connective tissue disorders (M30-M36)
  • viral warts (B07.-)

From L89:

Code First

1 item

From L89:

  • any associated gangrene (I96)
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