L81.4
L81.4: Other melanin hyperpigmentation
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
L81.4 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other melanin hyperpigmentation. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check L81.4 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberInclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Lentigo
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above L81.4
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above L81.4
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Written on L81: Other disorders of pigmentation
- nevus - see Alphabetical Index
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
L81.4 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy: 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- A57113Billing and Coding: Removal of Benign Skin Lesions
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Lentigo(congenital)
- Melanoderma, melanodermia
- Melanosis
- Riehl's melanosis
- Hyperpigmentation›melanin NEC
- Melanosis›Riehl's
- Melanosis›tar
- Melanosis›toxic
- Spots, spotting›liver
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Other codes under L81
- L81.0Postinflammatory hyperpigmentation
- L81.1Chloasma
- L81.2Freckles
- L81.3Cafe au lait spots
- L81.5Leukoderma, not elsewhere classified
- L81.6Other disorders of diminished melanin formation
- L81.7Pigmented purpuric dermatosis
- L81.8Other specified disorders of pigmentation
- L81.9Disorder of pigmentation, unspecified