Other specified leukemias

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:

C94.80 Other specified leukemias not having achieved remission
C94.81 Other specified leukemias, in remission
C94.82 Other specified leukemias, 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 Other specified leukemias

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 C94 Other leukemias of specified cell type

Excludes1 - never coded here

leukemic reticuloendotheliosis (C91.4-)
myelodysplastic syndromes (D46.-)
personal history of leukemia (Z85.6)
plasma cell leukemia (C90.1-)

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 > specified NEC
Leukemia, leukemic > acute basophilic
Leukemia, leukemic > aggressive NK-cell
Leukemia, leukemic > chronic eosinophilic

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
C94.0	Acute erythroid leukemia	Not billable
C94.2	Acute megakaryoblastic leukemia	Not billable
C94.3	Mast cell leukemia	Not billable
C94.4	Acute panmyelosis with myelofibrosis	Not billable
C94.6	Myelodysplastic disease, not elsewhere classified	Valid