A30.5 — Lepromatous leprosy
A30.5 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for lepromatous leprosy. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- LL leprosy
Risk adjustment
A30.5 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
A30.5 is named in 11 Medicare coverage policies — 11 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A52996Billing and Coding: Routine Foot Care
- A56232Billing and Coding: Foot Care
- A56619Billing and Coding: Nerve Conduction Studies and Electromyography
- A56680Billing and Coding: Routine Foot Care
How A30.5 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to A30.5.
- Leprosy›lepromatous(diffuse) (infiltrated) (macular) (neuritic) (nodular)
- Leprosy›LL
- Leprosy›nodular
Related codes at this level
Codes that share A30. If A30.5 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about A30.5
- Is A30.5 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. A30.5 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does A30.5 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99), in the block Other bacterial diseases (A30-A49).