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C43

Malignant melanoma of skin

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 10 more specific codes instead:

  • C43.0 Malignant melanoma of lip
  • C43.1 Malignant melanoma of eyelid, including canthus (also a header)
  • C43.2 Malignant melanoma of ear and external auricular canal (also a header)
  • C43.3 Malignant melanoma of other and unspecified parts of face (also a header)
  • C43.4 Malignant melanoma of scalp and neck
  • C43.5 Malignant melanoma of trunk (also a header)
  • C43.6 Malignant melanoma of upper limb, including shoulder (also a header)
  • C43.7 Malignant melanoma of lower limb, including hip (also a header)
  • C43.8 Malignant melanoma of overlapping sites of skin
  • C43.9 Malignant melanoma of skin, unspecified

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Malignant melanoma of skin

Official coding rules

Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.

This code

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • melanoma in situ (D03.-)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • malignant melanoma of skin of genital organs (C51-C52, C60.-, C63.-)
  • Merkel cell carcinoma (C4A.-)
  • sites other than skin-code to malignant neoplasm of the site