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L57.8

Other skin changes due to chronic exposure to nonionizing radiation

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 Other skin changes due to chronic exposure to nonionizing 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 L57 Skin changes due to chronic exposure to nonionizing radiation

Use additional code

  • code to identify the source of the ultraviolet radiation (W89), or other nonionizing radiation (W90)

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
L57.0 Actinic keratosis Valid
L57.1 Actinic reticuloid Valid
L57.2 Cutis rhomboidalis nuchae Valid
L57.3 Poikiloderma of Civatte Valid
L57.4 Cutis laxa senilis Valid
L57.5 Actinic granuloma Valid
L57.9 Skin changes due to chronic exposure to nonionizing radiation, unspecified Valid