C60.9 — Malignant neoplasm of penis, unspecified
C60.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for malignant neoplasm of penis, unspecified. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Malignant neoplasm of skin of penis NOS
Other codes that can never be billed with C60.9
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at C60.9. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading C60.9 alone.
- C44Other and unspecified malignant neoplasm of skin
Risk adjustment
C60.9 risk-adjusts. Under the CMS-HCC V28 model it maps to this category:
- HCC 23 Prostate, Breast, and Other Cancers and Tumors0.186 RAF
Coefficient shown for the Community Non-dual Aged segment. A higher HCC in the same hierarchy will suppress this one, so capturing it does not always add score.
Medicare coverage
C60.9 is named in 54 Medicare coverage policies — 54 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
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- A52479Oral Anticancer Drugs - Policy Article
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- A53883Billing and Coding: Mohs Micrographic Surgery (MMS)
How C60.9 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 C60.9.
- Melanoma›skin›penis
Code history
C60.9 has not changed since FY2024 — no addition, revision or deletion across the three most recent ICD-10-CM releases.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share C60. If C60.9 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about C60.9
- Is C60.9 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. C60.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does C60.9 sit in the tabular list?
- Neoplasms (C00-D49), in the block Malignant neoplasms of male genital organs (C60-C63).