ICD-10-CM Code L97.909

Valid for Submission

L97.909 is a billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of non-pressure chronic ulcer of unspecified part of unspecified lower leg with unspecified severity. The code is valid for the year 2020 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions. The ICD-10-CM code L97.909 might also be used to specify conditions or terms like arteritic leg ulcer, chronic neurogenic ulcer of lower limb, chronic trophic ulcer of lower limb, chronic ulcer of lower extremity, chronic ulcer of skin of lower leg, dermatosis resulting from arterial insufficiency, etc

Index to Diseases and Injuries

The Index to Diseases and Injuries is an alphabetical listing of medical terms, with each term mapped to one or more ICD-10 code(s). The following references for the code L97.909 are found in the index:

• - Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative
  • - lower limb (atrophic) (chronic) (neurogenic) (perforating) (pyogenic) (trophic) (tropical) - L97.909
    • - lower leg NOS - L97.909

Synonyms

The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:

• Arteritic leg ulcer
• Chronic neurogenic ulcer of lower limb
• Chronic trophic ulcer of lower limb
• Chronic ulcer of lower extremity
• Chronic ulcer of skin of lower leg
• Dermatosis resulting from arterial insufficiency
• Hypertensive ischemic ulcer
• Hypertensive leg ulcer
• Inflammation of lower leg due to varicose ulcer
• Ischemic ulcer of lower leg due to atherosclerotic disease
• Ischemic ulcer of skin
• Mixed arteriovenous leg ulcer
• Recurrent venous leg ulcer
• Skin ulcer due to varicose veins
• Stasis dermatitis
• Stasis dermatitis and venous ulcer of lower extremity due to chronic peripheral venous hypertension
• Stasis dermatitis of lower limb due to chronic peripheral venous hypertension
• Superficial skin ulcer of lower limb
• Superficial ulcer of skin
• Traumatic leg ulcer
• Traumatic skin ulcer
• Traumatic ulcer
• Tropical phagedenic ulcer
• Tropical phagedenic ulcer of leg
• Ulcer of foot
• Ulcer of lower extremity
• Ulcer of lower extremity due to postphlebitic syndrome
• Ulcer of lower extremity due to type 2 diabetes mellitus
• Ulcer of skin of lower extremity
• Ulceration of inguinal lymph node
• Ulceration of lymph node
• Ulceration of lymph node
• Ulceration of popliteal lymph node
• Venous stasis ulcer co-occurrent with edema of lower leg
• Venous stasis ulcer of leg
• Venous stasis ulcer of leg
• Venous stasis ulcer of leg
• Venous ulcer of lower extremity due to chronic peripheral venous hypertension

Diagnostic Related Groups

The ICD-10 code L97.909 is grouped in the following groups for version MS-DRG V37.0 What are Diagnostic Related Groups?
The Diagnostic Related Groups (DRGs) are a patient classification scheme which provides a means of relating the type of patients a hospital treats. The DRGs divides all possible principal diagnoses into mutually exclusive principal diagnosis areas referred to as Major Diagnostic Categories (MDC). applicable from 10/01/2019 through 09/30/2020.

• 573 - SKIN GRAFT FOR SKIN ULCER OR CELLULITIS WITH MCC
• 574 - SKIN GRAFT FOR SKIN ULCER OR CELLULITIS WITH CC
• 575 - SKIN GRAFT FOR SKIN ULCER OR CELLULITIS WITHOUT CC/MCC

Convert L97.909 to ICD-9

• 707.10 - Ulcer of lower limb NOS (Approximate Flag)

Code Classification

• Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (L00–L99)
  • Other disorders of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (L80-L99)
    • Non-pressure chronic ulcer of lower limb, NEC (L97)

Code History

• FY 2016 - New Code, effective from 10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016
  (First year ICD-10-CM implemented into the HIPAA code set)
• FY 2017 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2016 through 9/30/2017
• FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
• FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
• FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020

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