Q82.8: Other specified congenital malformations of skin
Q82.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other specified congenital malformations of skin. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check Q82.8 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberExcludes1: never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
- Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (Q79.6-)
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.
- disorders of pyrophosphate metabolism (E83.82-)
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Abnormal palmar creases
- Accessory skin tags
- Benign familial pemphigus [Hailey-Hailey]
- Congenital poikiloderma
- Cutis laxa (hyperelastica)
- Dermatoglyphic anomalies
- Inherited keratosis palmaris et plantaris
- Keratosis follicularis [Darier-White]
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above Q82.8
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Other codes that can never be billed with Q82.8
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
Q82.8 is named in 5 Medicare coverage policies: 5 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- A57044Billing and Coding: Removal of Benign Skin Lesions
- A57161Billing and Coding: Benign Skin Lesion Removal (Excludes Actinic Keratosis, and Mohs)
- A57482Billing and Coding: Removal of Benign Skin Lesions
- A57954Billing and Coding: Routine Foot Care
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Angiomatosis
- Bloom syndrome(-Machacek)(-Torre)
- Brugsch's syndrome
- Darier(-White) disease (congenital)
- Dermatolysis(exfoliativa) (congenital)
- Dermatomegaly NEC
- Elastic skin
- Elastoma(juvenile)
- Gyrate scalp
- Hailey-Hailey disease
- India rubber skin
- Keratoderma, keratodermia(congenital) (palmaris et plantaris) (symmetrical)
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.