ICD-10-CM › L00-L99 › L80-L99 › L89.01 Pressure ulcer of right elbow › L89.013

L89.013

Pressure ulcer of right elbow, stage 3

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 Pressure ulcer of right elbow, stage III
  2. FY2011 Draft description revised draft Pressure ulcer of right elbow, stage III Pressure ulcer of right elbow, stage 3

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 L89 Pressure ulcer

Excludes2 - not included here

  • decubitus (trophic) ulcer of cervix (uteri) (N86)
  • diabetic ulcers (E08.621, E08.622, E09.621, E09.622, E10.621, E10.622, E11.621, E11.622, E13.621, E13.622)
  • non-pressure chronic ulcer of skin (L97.-)
  • skin infections (L00-L08)
  • varicose ulcer (I83.0, I83.2)

Code first

  • any associated gangrene (I96)

Includes

  • bed sore
  • decubitus ulcer
  • plaster ulcer
  • pressure area
  • pressure sore

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.

Showing 40 of 78 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
L89.010 Pressure ulcer of right elbow, unstageable Valid
L89.011 Pressure ulcer of right elbow, stage 1 Valid
L89.012 Pressure ulcer of right elbow, stage 2 Valid
L89.014 Pressure ulcer of right elbow, stage 4 Valid
L89.016 Pressure-induced deep tissue damage of right elbow Valid
L89.019 Pressure ulcer of right elbow, unspecified stage Valid