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C44.102

Unspecified malignant neoplasm of skin of right eyelid, including canthus

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

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

Billable FY2016 to FY2018, and a category header from FY2019.

Submit one of these 2 more specific codes instead:

  • C44.1021 Unspecified malignant neoplasm of skin of right upper eyelid, including canthus
  • C44.1022 Unspecified malignant neoplasm of skin of right lower eyelid, including canthus

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 Unspecified malignant neoplasm of skin of right eyelid, including canthus
  2. FY2019 Stopped being billable

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.

Inherited from C44 Other and unspecified malignant neoplasm of skin

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • Kaposi's sarcoma of skin (C46.0)
  • malignant melanoma of skin (C43.-)
  • malignant neoplasm of skin of genital organs (C51-C52, C60.-, C63.2)
  • Merkel cell carcinoma (C4A.-)

Includes

  • malignant neoplasm of sebaceous glands
  • malignant neoplasm of sweat glands

How CDC's index refers to this code

Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
C44.101 Unspecified malignant neoplasm of skin of unspecified eyelid, including canthus Valid
C44.109 Unspecified malignant neoplasm of skin of left eyelid, including canthus Not billable