ICD-10-CM › L00-L99 › L55-L59 › L56 Other acute skin changes due to... › L56.8
Other specified acute skin changes due to ultraviolet radiation
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 Other specified acute skin changes due to ultraviolet radiation
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.
- Erythroderma
- Heat > sunburn
- Exanthem, exanthema
- Disorder > erythematous
- Effect, adverse > radiation NOS > dermatitis or eczema
- Effect, adverse > ultraviolet NOS > dermatitis or eczema
- Photodermatitis
- Cheilitis > actinic
- Photodermatitis > due to drug
- Sunburn > due to > tanning bed
- Dermatitis > ultraviolet > acute
- Dermatitis > due to > light NEC > acute
- Sunburn > due to > ultraviolet radiation
- Photosensitivity, photosensitization skin
- Dermatitis > due to > sunshine NEC > acute
- Dermatitis > due to > ultraviolet rays > acute
- Dermatitis > due to > radiation > sun NEC > acute
- Effect, adverse > ultraviolet NOS > dermatitis or eczema > acute
- Change > skin > acute, due to ultraviolet radiation > specified NEC
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 |
| L56.5 | Disseminated superficial actinic porokeratosis (DSAP) | Valid |
| L56.9 | Acute skin change due to ultraviolet radiation, unspecified | Valid |