ICD-10-CM › L00-L99 › L00-L08 › L03.0 Cellulitis and acute lymphangitis... › L03.02
Acute lymphangitis of finger
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.
Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:
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.
- FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Acute lymphangitis of finger
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 L03 Cellulitis and acute lymphangitis
Excludes2 - not included here
- cellulitis of anal and rectal region (K61.-)
- cellulitis of external auditory canal (H60.1)
- cellulitis of eyelid (H00.0)
- cellulitis of female external genital organs (N76.4)
- cellulitis of lacrimal apparatus (H04.3)
- cellulitis of male external genital organs (N48.2, N49.-)
- cellulitis of mouth (K12.2)
- cellulitis of nose (J34.0)
- eosinophilic cellulitis [Wells] (L98.3)
- febrile neutrophilic dermatosis [Sweet] (L98.2)
- lymphangitis (chronic) (subacute) (I89.1)
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.
- Felon > with lymphangitis
- Lymphangitis > acute > arm
- Lymphangitis > acute > hand
- Onychia > with lymphangitis
- Whitlow > with lymphangitis
- Hangnail > with lymphangitis
- Lymphangitis > acute > thumb
- Lymphangitis > acute > wrist
- Onyxitis > with lymphangitis
- Onychitis > with lymphangitis
- Paronychia > with lymphangitis
- Lymphangitis > acute > shoulder
- Perionychia > with lymphangitis
- Septic > arm > with lymphangitis
- Septic > toe > with lymphangitis
- Septic > hand > with lymphangitis
- Septic > nail > with lymphangitis
- Septic > finger > with lymphangitis
- Lymphangitis > acute > digit > finger
- Panaris, panaritium > with lymphangitis
- Lymphangitis > acute > upper limb > thumb
- Lymphangitis > acute > upper limb > finger
- Infection, infected, infective > with > lymphangitis
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > lymphatic vessel
- Infection, infected, infective > nail > with lymphangitis
- Lymphangitis > acute > finger
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| L03.01 | Cellulitis of finger | Not billable |
| L03.03 | Cellulitis of toe | Not billable |
| L03.04 | Acute lymphangitis of toe | Not billable |