Malignant neoplasm of nipple and areola, female

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 3 more specific codes instead:

C50.011 Malignant neoplasm of nipple and areola, right female breast
C50.012 Malignant neoplasm of nipple and areola, left female breast
C50.019 Malignant neoplasm of nipple and areola, unspecified female breast

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.

FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Malignant neoplasm of nipple and areola, female

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 C50 Malignant neoplasm of breast

Excludes1 - never coded here

skin of breast (C44.501, C44.511, C44.521, C44.591)

Use additional code

code to identify estrogen, and other hormones and factors receptor status (Z17.-)

Includes

connective tissue of breast
Paget's disease of breast
Paget's disease of nipple

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.

Paget's disease > nipple
Paget's disease > mammary
Paget's disease > breast
Disease, diseased > nipple > Paget's
Paget's disease > malignant > breast
Disease, diseased > nipple > Paget's > female
Paget's disease > malignant > unspecified site

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
C50.02	Malignant neoplasm of nipple and areola, male	Not billable