ICD-10-CM › L00-L99 › L20-L30 › L25 Unspecified contact dermatitis › L25.8
Unspecified contact dermatitis due to other agents
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 Unspecified contact dermatitis due to other agents
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.
- Erythroderma
- Eczema > contact
- Exanthem, exanthema
- Disorder > erythematous
- Dermatosis > occupational
- Dermatitis > due to > specified agent NEC
- Dermatitis > contact > due to > specified agent NEC
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| L25.3 | Unspecified contact dermatitis due to other chemical products | 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 |
| L25.9 | Unspecified contact dermatitis, unspecified cause | Valid |