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C96.9

Malignant neoplasm of lymphoid, hematopoietic and related tissue, unspecified

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2007 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. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Malignant neoplasm of lymphoid, hematopoietic and related tissue, unspecified

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 C96 Other and unspecified malignant neoplasms of lymphoid, hematopoietic and related tissue

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.

Showing 40 of 67 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
C96.0 Multifocal and multisystemic (disseminated) Langerhans-cell histiocytosis Valid
C96.2 Malignant mast cell neoplasm Not billable
C96.4 Sarcoma of dendritic cells (accessory cells) Valid
C96.5 Multifocal and unisystemic Langerhans-cell histiocytosis Valid
C96.6 Unifocal Langerhans-cell histiocytosis Valid
C96.A Histiocytic sarcoma Valid
C96.Z Other specified malignant neoplasms of lymphoid, hematopoietic and related tissue Valid