ICD-10-CM › L00-L99 › L20-L30 › L27 Dermatitis due to substances taken... › L27.1
Localized skin eruption due to drugs and medicaments taken internally
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 Localized skin eruption due to drugs and medicaments taken internally
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 L27 Dermatitis due to substances taken internally
Excludes1 - never coded here
- allergy NOS (T78.40)
Excludes2 - not included here
- adverse food reaction, except dermatitis (T78.0-T78.1)
- contact dermatitis (L23-L25)
- drug photoallergic response (L56.1)
- drug phototoxic response (L56.0)
- urticaria (L50.-)
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)
- perioral dermatitis (L71.0)
- radiation-related disorders of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (L55-L59)
- 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
- Exanthem, exanthema
- Disorder > erythematous
- Hand-foot syndrome
- Syndrome > hand-foot
- Eruption > drug > fixed
- Eruption > drug > localized
- Erythrodysesthesia, palmar plantar
- Eruption > skin > due to inoculation/vaccination > localized
- Dermatitis > due to > drugs and medicaments > localized skin eruption
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| L27.0 | Generalized skin eruption due to drugs and medicaments taken internally | Valid |
| L27.2 | Dermatitis due to ingested food | Valid |
| L27.8 | Dermatitis due to other substances taken internally | Valid |
| L27.9 | Dermatitis due to unspecified substance taken internally | Valid |