C50.A
C50.A: Malignant inflammatory neoplasm of breast
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
C50.A is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for malignant inflammatory neoplasm of breast. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC)
Other codes that can never be billed with C50.A
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
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 C50.A
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Other codes under C50
- C50.0Malignant neoplasm of nipple and areola
- C50.1Malignant neoplasm of central portion of breast
- C50.2Malignant neoplasm of upper-inner quadrant of breast
- C50.3Malignant neoplasm of lower-inner quadrant of breast
- C50.4Malignant neoplasm of upper-outer quadrant of breast
- C50.5Malignant neoplasm of lower-outer quadrant of breast
- C50.6Malignant neoplasm of axillary tail of breast
- C50.8Malignant neoplasm of overlapping sites of breast
- C50.9Malignant neoplasm of breast of unspecified site