ICD-10-CM › L00-L99 › L80-L99 › L89.8 Pressure ulcer of other site › L89.81
Pressure ulcer of head
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:
- L89.810 Pressure ulcer of head, unstageable
- L89.811 Pressure ulcer of head, stage 1
- L89.812 Pressure ulcer of head, stage 2
- L89.813 Pressure ulcer of head, stage 3
- L89.814 Pressure ulcer of head, stage 4
- L89.816 Pressure-induced deep tissue damage of head
- L89.819 Pressure ulcer of head, 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 head
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 85 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| L89.89 | Pressure ulcer of other site | Not billable |