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L10.5

Drug-induced pemphigus

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 Drug-induced pemphigus

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 L10 Pemphigus

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • pemphigus neonatorum (L01.03)

Inherited from the L10-L14 section Bullous disorders (L10-L14)

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • benign familial pemphigus [Hailey-Hailey] (Q82.8)
  • staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome (L00)
  • toxic epidermal necrolysis [Lyell] (L51.2)

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
L10.0 Pemphigus vulgaris Valid
L10.1 Pemphigus vegetans Valid
L10.2 Pemphigus foliaceous Valid
L10.3 Brazilian pemphigus [fogo selvagem] Valid
L10.4 Pemphigus erythematosus Valid
L10.8 Other pemphigus Not billable
L10.9 Pemphigus, unspecified Valid