ICD-10-CM › L00-L99 › L10-L14 › L12 Pemphigoid › L12.1
Cicatricial pemphigoid
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 Cicatricial pemphigoid
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 L12 Pemphigoid
Excludes1 - never coded here
- herpes gestationis (O26.4-)
- impetigo herpetiformis (L40.1)
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.
- Pemphigus > ocular
- Pemphigoid > ocular
- Pemphigus > conjunctiva
- Pemphigoid > cicatricial
- Pemphigoid > benign, mucous membrane
- Dermatitis > bullous, bullosa > mucosynechial, atrophic
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| L12.0 | Bullous pemphigoid | Valid |
| L12.2 | Chronic bullous disease of childhood | Valid |
| L12.3 | Acquired epidermolysis bullosa | Not billable |
| L12.8 | Other pemphigoid | Valid |
| L12.9 | Pemphigoid, unspecified | Valid |