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D04

Carcinoma in situ of skin

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 10 more specific codes instead:

  • D04.0 Carcinoma in situ of skin of lip
  • D04.1 Carcinoma in situ of skin of eyelid, including canthus (also a header)
  • D04.2 Carcinoma in situ of skin of ear and external auricular canal (also a header)
  • D04.3 Carcinoma in situ of skin of other and unspecified parts of face (also a header)
  • D04.4 Carcinoma in situ of skin of scalp and neck
  • D04.5 Carcinoma in situ of skin of trunk
  • D04.6 Carcinoma in situ of skin of upper limb, including shoulder (also a header)
  • D04.7 Carcinoma in situ of skin of lower limb, including hip (also a header)
  • D04.8 Carcinoma in situ of skin of other sites
  • D04.9 Carcinoma in situ of skin, unspecified

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.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Carcinoma in situ of skin

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.

This code

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • erythroplasia of Queyrat (penis) NOS (D07.4)
  • melanoma in situ (D03.-)

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

Includes

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