C50.81
C50.81 — Malignant neoplasm of overlapping sites of breast, female
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
C50.81 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for malignant neoplasm of overlapping sites of breast, female. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
C50.81 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 C50.81
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share C50.8. If C50.81 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about C50.81
- Is C50.81 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. C50.81 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does C50.81 sit in the tabular list?
- Neoplasms (C00-D49), in the block Malignant neoplasms of breast (C50).