L02.5
L02.5 — Cutaneous abscess, furuncle and carbuncle of hand
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
L02.5 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for cutaneous abscess, furuncle and carbuncle of hand. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
L02.5 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.
Code to one of these instead L02.5
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share L02. If L02.5 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- L02.0Cutaneous abscess, furuncle and carbuncle of face
- L02.1Cutaneous abscess, furuncle and carbuncle of neck
- L02.2Cutaneous abscess, furuncle and carbuncle of trunk
- L02.3Cutaneous abscess, furuncle and carbuncle of buttock
- L02.4Cutaneous abscess, furuncle and carbuncle of limb
- L02.6Cutaneous abscess, furuncle and carbuncle of foot
- L02.8Cutaneous abscess, furuncle and carbuncle of other sites
- L02.9Cutaneous abscess, furuncle and carbuncle, unspecified
Questions about L02.5
- Is L02.5 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. L02.5 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does L02.5 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).