ICD-10-CM › C00-D49 › D00-D09 › D03 Melanoma in situ › D03.4
D03.4
Melanoma in situ of scalp and neck
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
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.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Melanoma in situ of scalp and neck
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.
- Melanosarcoma
- Nevocarcinoma
- Melanoblastoma
- Melanocarcinoma
- Mole > cancerous
- Lentigo > maligna
- Melanoepithelioma
- Nevus > malignant
- Freckle > melanotic
- Sarcoma > melanotic
- Melanosis > precancerous
- Nevus > blue > malignant
- Lentigo > maligna > melanoma
- Freckle > malignant melanoma in
- Hutchinson's > melanotic freckle
- Melanosarcoma > epithelioid cell
- Mole > malignant > meaning > melanoma
- Melanosis > precancerous > malignant melanoma in
- Nevus > pigmented > giant > malignant melanoma in
- Hutchinson's > melanotic freckle > malignant melanoma in
- Melanoma > in situ > neck
- Melanoma > in situ > scalp
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| D03.0 | Melanoma in situ of lip | Valid |
| D03.1 | Melanoma in situ of eyelid, including canthus | Not billable |
| D03.2 | Melanoma in situ of ear and external auricular canal | Not billable |
| D03.3 | Melanoma in situ of other and unspecified parts of face | Not billable |
| D03.5 | Melanoma in situ of trunk | Not billable |
| D03.6 | Melanoma in situ of upper limb, including shoulder | Not billable |
| D03.7 | Melanoma in situ of lower limb, including hip | Not billable |
| D03.8 | Melanoma in situ of other sites | Valid |
| D03.9 | Melanoma in situ, unspecified | Valid |