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D22.11

Melanocytic nevi of right 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:

  • D22.111 Melanocytic nevi of right upper eyelid, including canthus
  • D22.112 Melanocytic nevi of right 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 Melanocytic nevi of right 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 D22 Melanocytic nevi

Includes

  • atypical nevus
  • blue hairy pigmented nevus
  • nevus NOS

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
D22.10 Melanocytic nevi of unspecified eyelid, including canthus Valid
D22.12 Melanocytic nevi of left eyelid, including canthus Not billable