D23.6
D23.6 — Other benign neoplasm of skin of upper limb, including shoulder
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
D23.6 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other benign neoplasm of skin of upper limb, including shoulder. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
D23.6 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 D23.6
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share D23. If D23.6 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- D23.0Other benign neoplasm of skin of lip
- D23.1Other benign neoplasm of skin of eyelid, including canthus
- D23.2Other benign neoplasm of skin of ear and external auricular canal
- D23.3Other benign neoplasm of skin of other and unspecified parts of face
- D23.4Other benign neoplasm of skin of scalp and neck
- D23.5Other benign neoplasm of skin of trunk
- D23.7Other benign neoplasm of skin of lower limb, including hip
- D23.9Other benign neoplasm of skin, unspecified
Questions about D23.6
- Is D23.6 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. D23.6 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does D23.6 sit in the tabular list?
- Neoplasms (C00-D49), in the block Benign neoplasms, except benign neuroendocrine tumors (D10-D36).