ICD-10-CM › L00-L99 › L80-L99 › L97.42 Non-pressure chronic ulcer of left... › L97.423

L97.423

Non-pressure chronic ulcer of left heel and midfoot with necrosis of muscle

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 Non-pressure chronic ulcer of left heel and midfoot with necrosis of muscle

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 L97 Non-pressure chronic ulcer of lower limb, not elsewhere classified

Excludes2 - not included here

  • pressure ulcer (pressure area) (L89.-)
  • skin infections (L00-L08)
  • specific infections classified to A00-B99

Code first

  • any associated underlying condition, such as:
  • any associated gangrene (I96)
  • atherosclerosis of the lower extremities (I70.23-, I70.24-, I70.33-, I70.34-, I70.43-, I70.44-, I70.53-, I70.54-, I70.63-, I70.64-, I70.73-, I70.74-)
  • chronic venous hypertension (I87.31-, I87.33-)
  • diabetic ulcers (E08.621, E08.622, E09.621, E09.622, E10.621, E10.622, E11.621, E11.622, E13.621, E13.622)
  • postphlebitic syndrome (I87.01-, I87.03-)
  • postthrombotic syndrome (I87.01-, I87.03-)
  • varicose ulcer (I83.0-, I83.2-)

Includes

  • chronic ulcer of skin of lower limb NOS
  • non-healing ulcer of skin
  • non-infected sinus of skin
  • trophic ulcer NOS
  • tropical ulcer NOS
  • ulcer of skin of lower limb NOS

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 44 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
L97.421 Non-pressure chronic ulcer of left heel and midfoot limited to breakdown of skin Valid
L97.422 Non-pressure chronic ulcer of left heel and midfoot with fat layer exposed Valid
L97.424 Non-pressure chronic ulcer of left heel and midfoot with necrosis of bone Valid
L97.425 Non-pressure chronic ulcer of left heel and midfoot with muscle involvement without evidence of necrosis Valid
L97.426 Non-pressure chronic ulcer of left heel and midfoot with bone involvement without evidence of necrosis Valid
L97.428 Non-pressure chronic ulcer of left heel and midfoot with other specified severity Valid
L97.429 Non-pressure chronic ulcer of left heel and midfoot with unspecified severity Valid