L76.1
L76.1: Accidental puncture and laceration of skin and subcutaneous tissue during a procedure
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
L76.1 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for accidental puncture and laceration of skin and subcutaneous tissue during a procedure. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with L76.1
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 L76.1
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Other codes under L76
- L76.0Intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma of skin and subcutaneous tissue complicating 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