L02.3
L02.3: Cutaneous abscess, furuncle and carbuncle of buttock
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
L02.3 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for cutaneous abscess, furuncle and carbuncle of buttock. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes1: never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
- pilonidal cyst with abscess (L05.01)
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above L02.3
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
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 L02.3
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Other codes under L02
- L02.0Cutaneous abscess, furuncle and carbuncle of face
- L02.1Cutaneous abscess, furuncle and carbuncle of neck
- L02.2Cutaneous abscess, furuncle and carbuncle of trunk
- L02.4Cutaneous abscess, furuncle and carbuncle of limb
- L02.5Cutaneous abscess, furuncle and carbuncle of hand
- L02.6Cutaneous abscess, furuncle and carbuncle of foot
- L02.8Cutaneous abscess, furuncle and carbuncle of other sites
- L02.9Cutaneous abscess, furuncle and carbuncle, unspecified