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L70.5

Acne excoriee

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 Acne excoriee des jeunes filles
  2. FY2013 Draft description revised draft Acne excoriee des jeunes filles Acne excoriée des jeunes filles
  3. FY2014 Draft description revised draft Acne excoriée des jeunes filles Acne excoriee des jeunes filles
  4. FY2017 Description revised Acne excoriee des jeunes filles Acne excoriee

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 L70 Acne

Excludes2 - not included here

  • acne keloid (L73.0)

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
L70.0 Acne vulgaris Valid
L70.1 Acne conglobata Valid
L70.2 Acne varioliformis Valid
L70.3 Acne tropica Valid
L70.4 Infantile acne Valid
L70.8 Other acne Valid
L70.9 Acne, unspecified Valid