ICD-10-CM › L00-L99 › L20-L30 › L25 Unspecified contact dermatitis › L25.3

L25.3

Unspecified contact dermatitis due to other chemical products

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 Unspecified contact dermatitis due to other chemical products

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 L25 Unspecified contact dermatitis

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • allergic contact dermatitis (L23.-)
  • allergy NOS (T78.40)
  • dermatitis NOS (L30.9)
  • irritant contact dermatitis (L24.-)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • dermatitis due to ingested substances (L27.-)
  • dermatitis of eyelid (H01.1-)
  • eczema of external ear (H60.5-)
  • perioral dermatitis (L71.0)
  • radiation-related disorders of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (L55-L59)

Inherited from the L20-L30 section Dermatitis and eczema (L20-L30)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • chronic (childhood) granulomatous disease (D71-)
  • dermatitis gangrenosa (L08.0)
  • dermatitis herpetiformis (L13.0)
  • dry skin dermatitis (L85.3)
  • factitial dermatitis (L98.1)
  • stasis dermatitis (I87.2)

Note

  • In this block the terms dermatitis and eczema are used synonymously and interchangeably.

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
L25.0 Unspecified contact dermatitis due to cosmetics Valid
L25.1 Unspecified contact dermatitis due to drugs in contact with skin Valid
L25.2 Unspecified contact dermatitis due to dyes Valid
L25.4 Unspecified contact dermatitis due to food in contact with skin Valid
L25.5 Unspecified contact dermatitis due to plants, except food Valid
L25.8 Unspecified contact dermatitis due to other agents Valid
L25.9 Unspecified contact dermatitis, unspecified cause Valid