Plasma cell leukemia

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:

C90.10 Plasma cell leukemia not having achieved remission
C90.11 Plasma cell leukemia in remission
C90.12 Plasma cell leukemia in relapse

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 Plasma cell leukemia

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 C90 Multiple myeloma and malignant plasma cell neoplasms

Excludes1 - never coded here

personal history of other malignant neoplasms of lymphoid, hematopoietic and related tissues (Z85.79)

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)

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.

Cancer > blood
Infiltrate, infiltration > leukemic
Infiltrate, infiltration > lymphatic
Leukemia, leukemic > plasma cell
Leukemia, leukemic > plasmacytic

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
C90.0	Multiple myeloma	Not billable
C90.2	Extramedullary plasmacytoma	Not billable
C90.3	Solitary plasmacytoma	Not billable