ICD-10-CM › C00-D49 › D00-D09 › D04 Carcinoma in situ of skin › D04.9

D04.9

Carcinoma in situ of skin, 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 Carcinoma in situ of skin, 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 D04 Carcinoma in situ of skin

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

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
D04.0 Carcinoma in situ of skin of lip Valid
D04.1 Carcinoma in situ of skin of eyelid, including canthus Not billable
D04.2 Carcinoma in situ of skin of ear and external auricular canal Not billable
D04.3 Carcinoma in situ of skin of other and unspecified parts of face Not billable
D04.4 Carcinoma in situ of skin of scalp and neck Valid
D04.5 Carcinoma in situ of skin of trunk Valid
D04.6 Carcinoma in situ of skin of upper limb, including shoulder Not billable
D04.7 Carcinoma in situ of skin of lower limb, including hip Not billable
D04.8 Carcinoma in situ of skin of other sites Valid