ICD-10-CM › L00-L99 › L60-L75 › L73 Other follicular disorders › L73.8
Other specified follicular disorders
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 follicular disorders
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 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.
- Sycosis
- Sycosis > barbae
- Sycosis > lupoides
- Sycosis > vulgaris
- Ulerythema > sycosiforme
- Disorder > follicular > specified NEC
- Disease, diseased > hair > follicles > specified NEC
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| L73.0 | Acne keloid | Valid |
| L73.1 | Pseudofolliculitis barbae | Valid |
| L73.2 | Hidradenitis suppurativa | Valid |
| L73.9 | Follicular disorder, unspecified | Valid |