L98.49
L98.49: Non-pressure chronic ulcer of skin of other sites
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
L98.49 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for non-pressure chronic ulcer of skin of other sites. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Non-pressure chronic ulcer of skin NOS
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above L98.49
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 L98.49
8 child codes. Green means billable.
- L98.491Non-pressure chronic ulcer of skin of other sites limited to breakdown of skin
- L98.492Non-pressure chronic ulcer of skin of other sites with fat layer exposed
- L98.493Non-pressure chronic ulcer of skin of other sites with necrosis of muscle
- L98.494Non-pressure chronic ulcer of skin of other sites with necrosis of bone
- L98.495Non-pressure chronic ulcer of skin of other sites with muscle involvement without evidence of necrosis
- L98.496Non-pressure chronic ulcer of skin of other sites with bone involvement without evidence of necrosis
- L98.498Non-pressure chronic ulcer of skin of other sites with other specified severity
- L98.499Non-pressure chronic ulcer of skin of other sites with unspecified severity