L98.4
L98.4: Non-pressure chronic ulcer of skin, not elsewhere classified
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
L98.4 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for non-pressure chronic ulcer of skin, not elsewhere classified. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes2: not included here, but may coexist
The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Chronic ulcer of skin NOS
- Tropical ulcer NOS
- Ulcer of skin NOS
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 L98.4
8 child codes. Green means billable.
- L98.41Non-pressure chronic ulcer of buttock
- L98.42Non-pressure chronic ulcer of back
- L98.43Non-pressure chronic ulcer of abdomen
- L98.44Non-pressure chronic ulcer of chest
- L98.45Non-pressure chronic ulcer of neck
- L98.46Non-pressure chronic ulcer of face
- L98.47Non-pressure chronic ulcer of groin
- L98.49Non-pressure chronic ulcer of skin of other sites
Other codes under L98
- L98.0Pyogenic granuloma
- L98.1Factitial dermatitis
- L98.2Febrile neutrophilic dermatosis [Sweet]
- L98.3Eosinophilic cellulitis [Wells]
- L98.ANon-pressure chronic ulcer of upper limb, not elsewhere classified
- L98.5Mucinosis of the skin
- L98.6Other infiltrative disorders of the skin and subcutaneous tissue
- L98.7Excessive and redundant skin and subcutaneous tissue
- L98.8Other specified disorders of the skin and subcutaneous tissue
- L98.9Disorder of the skin and subcutaneous tissue, unspecified