L76.34 — Postprocedural seroma of skin and subcutaneous tissue following other procedure
L76.34 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for postprocedural seroma of skin and subcutaneous tissue following other procedure. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
L76.34 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
L76.34 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.
- A56766Billing and Coding: Incision and Drainage (I&D) of Abscess of Skin, Subcutaneous and Accessory Structures
How L76.34 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 L76.34.
- Complication›postprocedural›seroma›skin and subcutaneous tissue›following procedure on other organ
Related codes at this level
Codes that share L76.3. If L76.34 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about L76.34
- Is L76.34 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. L76.34 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does L76.34 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).