ICD-10-CM › L00-L99 › L60-L75 › L60 Nail disorders › L60.3
Nail dystrophy
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 Nail dystrophy
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 L60 Nail disorders
Excludes2 - not included here
- clubbing of nails (R68.3)
- onychia and paronychia (L03.0-)
Inherited from the L60-L75 section Disorders of skin appendages (L60-L75)
Excludes1 - never coded here
- congenital malformations of integument (Q84.-)
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.
- Behr's disease
- Stargardt's disease
- Macula > degeneration
- Retinitis > disciformis
- Kuhnt-Junius degeneration
- Heredodegeneration, macular
- Disorder > retina > dystrophy
- Sclerosis, sclerotic > choroid
- Disorder > retina > retinopathy
- Disorder > retina > degeneration
- Disorder > choroid > degeneration
- Macula > degeneration > hereditary
- Retinopathy > pigmentary, congenital
- Detachment > retina > pigment epithelium
- Disorder > retina > macular degeneration
- Degeneration, degenerative > eye, macular
- Degeneration, degenerative > Kuhnt-Junius
- Degeneration, degenerative > chorioretinal
- Degeneration, degenerative > tapetoretinal
- Degeneration, degenerative > retina > macula
- Degeneration, degenerative > Bruch's membrane
- Degeneration, degenerative > retina > hereditary
- Degeneration, degenerative > retina > pigmentary
- Degeneration, degenerative > choroid > hereditary
- Degeneration, degenerative > retina > Kuhnt-Junius
- Degeneration, degenerative > retina > posterior pole
- Degeneration, degenerative > eye, macular > congenital or hereditary
- Degeneration, degenerative > macula, macular > congenital or hereditary
- Spoon nail
- Koilonychia
- Soft > nails
- Onychomalacia
- Onychorrhexis
- Onychoschizia
- Brittle > nails
- Egg shell nails
- Onychodystrophy
- Atrophia > unguium
- Fragilitas > unguium
- Atrophy, atrophic > nail
Showing 40 of 45 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| L60.0 | Ingrowing nail | Valid |
| L60.1 | Onycholysis | Valid |
| L60.2 | Onychogryphosis | Valid |
| L60.4 | Beau's lines | Valid |
| L60.5 | Yellow nail syndrome | Valid |
| L60.8 | Other nail disorders | Valid |
| L60.9 | Nail disorder, unspecified | Valid |