L02.42

L02.42: Furuncle of limb

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

L02.42 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for furuncle of limb. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Boil of limb
Folliculitis of limb

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above L02.42

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on L02.4: Cutaneous abscess, furuncle and carbuncle of limb

Cutaneous abscess, furuncle and carbuncle of groin (L02.214, L02.224, L02.234)
Cutaneous abscess, furuncle and carbuncle of hand (L02.5-)
Cutaneous abscess, furuncle and carbuncle of foot (L02.6-)

Written on L02: Cutaneous abscess, furuncle and carbuncle

abscess of anus and rectal regions (K61.-)
abscess of female genital organs (external) (N76.4)
abscess of male genital organs (external) (N48.2, N49.-)

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 L02.42

7 child codes. Green means billable.