L90.5Billable
Scar conditions and fibrosis of skin
Chapter 12: Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue
Inclusion Terms
5 items
Inclusion Terms
- •Adherent scar (skin)
- •Cicatrix
- •Disfigurement of skin due to scar
- •Fibrosis of skin NOS
- •Scar NOS
Billable Code
L90.5 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 acne scarring
acne scarring
View TemplatesCicatricial Acne
View documentation for left chest pacemaker scar
left chest pacemaker scar
View TemplatesPost-procedural scar of cardiac pacemaker implantation
View documentation for scar
scar
View TemplatesScar Conditions and Fibrosis of Skin
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.
Parent Codes Referenced:
Excludes2
10 items
Excludes2
From L00-L99:
- •certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- •certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- •
- •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.-)