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D03.12

Melanoma in situ of left eyelid, including canthus

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

Billable FY2016 to FY2018, and a category header from FY2019.

Submit one of these 2 more specific codes instead:

  • D03.121 Melanoma in situ of left upper eyelid, including canthus
  • D03.122 Melanoma in situ of left lower eyelid, including canthus

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 Melanoma in situ of left eyelid, including canthus
  2. FY2019 Stopped being billable

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 the D00-D09 section In situ neoplasms (D00-D09)

Includes

  • Bowen's disease
  • erythroplasia
  • grade III intraepithelial neoplasia
  • Queyrat's erythroplasia

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
D03.10 Melanoma in situ of unspecified eyelid, including canthus Valid
D03.11 Melanoma in situ of right eyelid, including canthus Not billable