ICD-10-CM › R00-R99 › R20-R23 › R20 Disturbances of skin sensation › R20.0
Anesthesia of skin
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
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.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Anesthesia of skin
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 R20 Disturbances of skin sensation
Excludes1 - never coded here
- dissociative anesthesia and sensory loss (F44.6)
- psychogenic disturbances (F45.8)
Inherited from the R20-R23 section Symptoms and signs involving the skin and subcutaneous tissue (R20-R23)
Excludes2 - not included here
- symptoms relating to breast (N64.4-N64.5)
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.
- Analgesia
- Paresthesia
- Disturbance > touch
- Disturbance > sensory
- Reaction > anesthesia
- Effect, adverse > anesthesia
- Disturbance > deep sensibility
- Complication > spinal > anesthesia
- Complication > anesthesia, anesthetic
- Anesthesia, anesthetic > complication or reaction NEC
- Numbness
- Hemianalgesia
- Hemianesthesia
- Anesthesia, anesthetic
- Anesthesia, anesthetic > skin
- Anesthesia, anesthetic > local skin lesion
- Disturbance > sensation NEC > skin > anesthesia
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| R20.1 | Hypoesthesia of skin | Valid |
| R20.2 | Paresthesia of skin | Valid |
| R20.3 | Hyperesthesia | Valid |
| R20.8 | Other disturbances of skin sensation | Valid |
| R20.9 | Unspecified disturbances of skin sensation | Valid |