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
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- L76.0Intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma of skin and subcutaneous tissue complicating a procedure
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 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