C43.5
C43.5 — Malignant melanoma of trunk
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
C43.5 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for malignant melanoma of trunk. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
C43.5 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.
Code to one of these instead C43.5
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share C43. If C43.5 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- C43.0Malignant melanoma of lip
- C43.1Malignant melanoma of eyelid, including canthus
- C43.2Malignant melanoma of ear and external auricular canal
- C43.3Malignant melanoma of other and unspecified parts of face
- C43.4Malignant melanoma of scalp and neck
- C43.6Malignant melanoma of upper limb, including shoulder
- C43.7Malignant melanoma of lower limb, including hip
- C43.8Malignant melanoma of overlapping sites of skin
- C43.9Malignant melanoma of skin, unspecified
Questions about C43.5
- Is C43.5 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. C43.5 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does C43.5 sit in the tabular list?
- Neoplasms (C00-D49), in the block Melanoma and other malignant neoplasms of skin (C43-C44).