L73.8 — Other specified follicular disorders
L73.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other specified follicular disorders. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Sycosis barbae
Risk adjustment
L73.8 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
L73.8 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy — 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A58565Billing and Coding: Wound and Ulcer Care
How L73.8 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 L73.8.
- Sycosis
- Sycosis›barbae(not parasitic)
- Sycosis›lupoides
- Sycosis›vulgaris
- Ulerythema›sycosiforme
- Disorder›follicular›specified NEC
- Disease, diseased›hair›follicles›specified NEC
Related codes at this level
Codes that share L73. If L73.8 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about L73.8
- Is L73.8 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. L73.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does L73.8 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (L00-L99), in the block Disorders of skin appendages (L60-L75).