ICD-10-CM › L00-L99 › L80-L99 › L85 Other epidermal thickening › L85.3
Xerosis cutis
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 Xerosis cutis
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 L85 Other epidermal thickening
Excludes2 - not included here
- hypertrophic disorders of the skin (L91.-)
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.
- Skin > dry
- Xerosis > skin
- Xerosis > cutis
- Asteatosis cutis
- Dermatitis > dry skin
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| L85.0 | Acquired ichthyosis | Valid |
| L85.1 | Acquired keratosis [keratoderma] palmaris et plantaris | Valid |
| L85.2 | Keratosis punctata (palmaris et plantaris) | Valid |
| L85.8 | Other specified epidermal thickening | Valid |
| L85.9 | Epidermal thickening, unspecified | Valid |