L89.00
L89.00: Pressure ulcer of unspecified elbow
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
L89.00 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for pressure ulcer of unspecified elbow. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above L89.00
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
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 L89.00
7 child codes. Green means billable.
- L89.000Pressure ulcer of unspecified elbow, unstageable
- L89.001Pressure ulcer of unspecified elbow, stage 1
- L89.002Pressure ulcer of unspecified elbow, stage 2
- L89.003Pressure ulcer of unspecified elbow, stage 3
- L89.004Pressure ulcer of unspecified elbow, stage 4
- L89.006Pressure-induced deep tissue damage of unspecified elbow
- L89.009Pressure ulcer of unspecified elbow, unspecified stage