ICD-10-CM › L00-L99 › L00-L08 › L01.0 Impetigo › L01.00
Impetigo, unspecified
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 Impetigo, 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 L01 Impetigo
Excludes1 - never coded here
- impetigo herpetiformis (L40.1)
Inherited from the L00-L08 section Infections of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (L00-L08)
Excludes2 - not included here
- hordeolum (H00.0)
- infective dermatitis (L30.3)
- local infections of skin classified in Chapter 1
- lupus panniculitis (L93.2)
- panniculitis NOS (M79.3)
- panniculitis of neck and back (M54.0-)
- Perlèche NOS (K13.0)
- Perlèche due to candidiasis (B37.0)
- Perlèche due to riboflavin deficiency (E53.0)
- pyogenic granuloma (L98.0)
- relapsing panniculitis [Weber-Christian] (M35.6)
- viral warts (B07.-)
- zoster (B02.-)
Use additional code
- code (B95-B97) to identify infectious agent.
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.
- Disease, diseased > outer ear
- Disease, diseased > auditory canal
- Disease, diseased > external > ear
- Disorder > ear > external > otitis
- Disease, diseased > external > auditory canal
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > ear > external
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > auditory meatus
- Impetigo
- Impetigo > external ear
- Otitis > externa > in > impetigo
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| L01.01 | Non-bullous impetigo | Valid |
| L01.02 | Bockhart's impetigo | Valid |
| L01.03 | Bullous impetigo | Valid |
| L01.09 | Other impetigo | Valid |