L00 — Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome
L00 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Excludes1 — never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
Use additional code
Add a secondary code to capture the detail described below.
- code to identify percentage of skin exfoliation (L49.-)
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Ritter's disease
Other codes that can never be billed with L00
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at L00. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading L00 alone.
Risk adjustment
L00 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.
How L00 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 L00.
- Ritter's disease
- Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome
- Dermatitis›Ritter's(exfoliativa)
- Disease, diseased›Ritter's
- Syndrome›staphylococcal scalded skin
- Dermatitis›exfoliative, exfoliativa›neonatorum
Questions about L00
- Is L00 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. L00 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does L00 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (L00-L99), in the block Infections of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (L00-L08).
- What cannot be coded together with L00?
- L00 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.