C43.6
C43.6: Malignant melanoma of upper limb, including shoulder
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
C43.6 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for malignant melanoma of upper limb, including shoulder. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above C43.6
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above C43.6
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Other codes that can never be billed with C43.6
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- C44Other and unspecified malignant neoplasm of skin
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead C43.6
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Other codes under C43
- 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
- C43.5Malignant melanoma of trunk
- C43.7Malignant melanoma of lower limb, including hip
- C43.8Malignant melanoma of overlapping sites of skin
- C43.9Malignant melanoma of skin, unspecified