C82.90 — Follicular lymphoma, unspecified, unspecified site
C82.90 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for follicular lymphoma, unspecified, unspecified site. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
C82.90 risk-adjusts. Under the CMS-HCC V28 model it maps to this category:
- HCC 21 Lymphoma and Other Cancers0.671 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
C82.90 is named in 44 Medicare coverage policies — 44 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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How C82.90 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 C82.90.
- Brill-Symmers' disease
Related codes at this level
Codes that share C82.9. If C82.90 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- C82.91Follicular lymphoma, unspecified, lymph nodes of head, face, and neck
- C82.92Follicular lymphoma, unspecified, intrathoracic lymph nodes
- C82.93Follicular lymphoma, unspecified, intra-abdominal lymph nodes
- C82.94Follicular lymphoma, unspecified, lymph nodes of axilla and upper limb
- C82.95Follicular lymphoma, unspecified, lymph nodes of inguinal region and lower limb
- C82.96Follicular lymphoma, unspecified, intrapelvic lymph nodes
- C82.97Follicular lymphoma, unspecified, spleen
- C82.98Follicular lymphoma, unspecified, lymph nodes of multiple sites
- C82.99Follicular lymphoma, unspecified, extranodal and solid organ sites
- C82.9AFollicular lymphoma, unspecified, in remission
Questions about C82.90
- Is C82.90 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. C82.90 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does C82.90 sit in the tabular list?
- Neoplasms (C00-D49), in the block Malignant neoplasms of lymphoid, hematopoietic and related tissue (C81-C96).