ICD-10-CM › L00-L99 › L60-L75 › L65 Other nonscarring hair loss › L65.1

L65.1

Anagen effluvium

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 Anagen effluvium

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 L65 Other nonscarring hair loss

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • trichotillomania (F63.3)

Use additional code

  • code for adverse effect, if applicable, to identify drug (T36-T50 with fifth or sixth character 5)

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
L65.0 Telogen effluvium Valid
L65.2 Alopecia mucinosa Valid
L65.8 Other specified nonscarring hair loss Valid
L65.9 Nonscarring hair loss, unspecified Valid