ICD-10-CM › L00-L99 › L80-L99 › L89.15 Pressure ulcer of sacral region › L89.156

L89.156

Pressure-induced deep tissue damage of sacral region

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2020 onwards.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2020 to now.

  1. FY2020 Added to the code set Pressure-induced deep tissue damage of sacral region

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 85 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
L89.150 Pressure ulcer of sacral region, unstageable Valid
L89.151 Pressure ulcer of sacral region, stage 1 Valid
L89.152 Pressure ulcer of sacral region, stage 2 Valid
L89.153 Pressure ulcer of sacral region, stage 3 Valid
L89.154 Pressure ulcer of sacral region, stage 4 Valid
L89.159 Pressure ulcer of sacral region, unspecified stage Valid