ICD-10-CM › L00-L99 › L55-L59 › L56 Other acute skin changes due to... › L56.5
Disseminated superficial actinic porokeratosis (DSAP)
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 Disseminated superficial actinic porokeratosis (DSAP)
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 L56 Other acute skin changes due to ultraviolet radiation
Use additional code
- code to identify the source of the ultraviolet radiation (W89, X32)
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.
- DSAP
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| L56.0 | Drug phototoxic response | Valid |
| L56.1 | Drug photoallergic response | Valid |
| L56.2 | Photocontact dermatitis [berloque dermatitis] | Valid |
| L56.3 | Solar urticaria | Valid |
| L56.4 | Polymorphous light eruption | Valid |
| L56.8 | Other specified acute skin changes due to ultraviolet radiation | Valid |
| L56.9 | Acute skin change due to ultraviolet radiation, unspecified | Valid |