Follicular lymphoma

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 9 more specific codes instead:

C82.0 Follicular lymphoma grade I (also a header)
C82.1 Follicular lymphoma grade II (also a header)
C82.2 Follicular lymphoma grade III, unspecified (also a header)
C82.3 Follicular lymphoma grade IIIa (also a header)
C82.4 Follicular lymphoma grade IIIb (also a header)
C82.5 Diffuse follicle center lymphoma (also a header)
C82.6 Cutaneous follicle center lymphoma (also a header)
C82.8 Other types of follicular lymphoma (also a header)
C82.9 Follicular lymphoma, unspecified (also a header)

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 Follicular lymphoma

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

mature T/NK-cell lymphomas (C84.-)
personal history of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (Z85.72)

Includes

follicular lymphoma with or without diffuse areas

Inherited from the C81-C96 section Malignant neoplasms of lymphoid, hematopoietic and related tissue (C81-C96)

Excludes2 - not included here

Kaposi's sarcoma of lymph nodes (C46.3)
secondary and unspecified neoplasm of lymph nodes (C77.-)
secondary neoplasm of bone marrow (C79.52)
secondary neoplasm of spleen (C78.89)