K14.8 — Other diseases of tongue
K14.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other diseases of tongue. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Atrophy of tongue
- Crenated tongue
- Enlargement of tongue
- Glossocele
- Glossoptosis
- Hypertrophy of tongue
Risk adjustment
K14.8 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
K14.8 is named in 3 Medicare coverage policies — 3 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 K14.8 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 K14.8.
- Crenated tongue
- Glossocele
- Glossoncus
- Glossoplegia
- Glossoptosis
- Atrophy, atrophic›tongue(senile)
- Cicatrix›tongue
- Cyst›tongue
- Enlargement, enlarged›tongue
- Hemiatrophy›tongue
- Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic›tongue
- Hypertrophy, hypertrophic›frenulum, frenum(tongue)
Related codes at this level
Codes that share K14. If K14.8 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about K14.8
- Is K14.8 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. K14.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does K14.8 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K95), in the block Diseases of oral cavity and salivary glands (K00-K14).