ICD-10-CM › L00-L99 › L80-L99 › L89.1 Pressure ulcer of back › L89.10
Pressure ulcer of unspecified part of back
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.
Submit one of these 7 more specific codes instead:
- L89.100 Pressure ulcer of unspecified part of back, unstageable
- L89.101 Pressure ulcer of unspecified part of back, stage 1
- L89.102 Pressure ulcer of unspecified part of back, stage 2
- L89.103 Pressure ulcer of unspecified part of back, stage 3
- L89.104 Pressure ulcer of unspecified part of back, stage 4
- L89.106 Pressure-induced deep tissue damage of unspecified part of back
- L89.109 Pressure ulcer of unspecified part of back, unspecified stage
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2012 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.
- FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Pressure ulcer of unspecified part of back
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.
- Bedsore
- Bed sore
- Decubitus
- Naga sore
- Phagedena
- Sloughing
- Sphacelus
- Sore > bed
- Veldt sore
- Sore > Naga
- Crural ulcer
- Sore > veldt
- Desert > sore
- Mortification
- Plaster ulcer
- Sore > desert
- Sore > of skin
- Pressure > sore
- Sore > pressure
- Sore > tropical
- Pressure > ulcer
- Meleney's > ulcer
- Pressure > injury
- Sloughing > ulcer
- Necrosis, necrotic
- Pressure > necrosis
- Meleney's > gangrene
- Phagedena > tropical
- Barcoo disease or rot
- Pressure > area, skin
- Pemphigus > gangrenous
- Cellulitis > gangrenous
- Injury > pressure > injury
- Necrosis, necrotic > pressure
- Dropsy, dropsical > gangrenous
- Gangrene, gangrenous > decubital
- Gangrene, gangrenous > Meleney's
- Lesion > ulcerated or ulcerative
- Infection, infected, infective > skin > ulcer
- Gangrene, gangrenous > progressive synergistic
Showing 40 of 78 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| L89.11 | Pressure ulcer of right upper back | Not billable |
| L89.12 | Pressure ulcer of left upper back | Not billable |
| L89.13 | Pressure ulcer of right lower back | Not billable |
| L89.14 | Pressure ulcer of left lower back | Not billable |
| L89.15 | Pressure ulcer of sacral region | Not billable |