K13.29 — Other disturbances of oral epithelium, including tongue
K13.29 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other disturbances of oral epithelium, including tongue. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Erythroplakia of mouth or tongue
- Focal epithelial hyperplasia of mouth or tongue
- Leukoedema of mouth or tongue
- Other oral epithelium disturbances
Risk adjustment
K13.29 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.
Medicare coverage
K13.29 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy — 1 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 K13.29 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 K13.29.
- Erythroplakia, oral epithelium, and tongue
- Leukoedema, oral epithelium
- Disturbance›oral epithelium, including tongue NEC
- Ichthyosis›lingual
- Lingua›tylosis
- Plaque›tongue
- Psoriasis›buccal
- Psoriasis›mouth
- Tylosis›buccalis
- Tylosis›linguae
- White›patches of mouth
- Disturbance›keratinization NEC›oral(mucosa) (soft tissue)
Related codes at this level
Codes that share K13.2. If K13.29 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about K13.29
- Is K13.29 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. K13.29 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does K13.29 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K95), in the block Diseases of oral cavity and salivary glands (K00-K14).