L76
L76 — Intraoperative and postprocedural complications of skin and subcutaneous tissue
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
L76 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for intraoperative and postprocedural complications of skin and subcutaneous tissue. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with L76
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at L76. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading L76 alone.
- L76.0Intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma of skin and subcutaneous tissue complicating a procedure
Risk adjustment
L76 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 L76
5 child codes. Green means billable.
- L76.0Intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma of skin and subcutaneous tissue complicating a procedure
- L76.1Accidental puncture and laceration of skin and subcutaneous tissue during a procedure
- L76.2Postprocedural hemorrhage of skin and subcutaneous tissue following a procedure
- L76.3Postprocedural hematoma and seroma of skin and subcutaneous tissue following a procedure
- L76.8Other intraoperative and postprocedural complications of skin and subcutaneous tissue
Questions about L76
- Is L76 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. L76 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does L76 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (L00-L99), in the block Intraoperative and postprocedural complications of skin and subcutaneous tissue (L76).