C83.5

C83.5: Lymphoblastic (diffuse) lymphoma

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

C83.5 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for lymphoblastic (diffuse) lymphoma. 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.

B-precursor lymphoma
Lymphoblastic B-cell lymphoma
Lymphoblastic lymphoma NOS
Lymphoblastic T-cell lymphoma
T-precursor lymphoma

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above C83.5

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on C83: Non-follicular lymphoma

personal history of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (Z85.72)

Other codes that can never be billed with C83.5

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

C83.390Primary central nervous system lymphoma

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 C83.5

11 child codes. Green means billable.