L97.909 - Non-pressure chronic ulcer of unspecified part of unspecified lower leg with unspecified severity
| ICD-10: | L97.909 |
| Short Description: | Non-prs chronic ulc unsp prt of unsp low leg w unsp severity |
| Long Description: | Non-pressure chronic ulcer of unspecified part of unspecified lower leg with unspecified severity |
| Status: | Valid for Submission |
| Version: | ICD-10-CM 2023 |
| Code Classification: |
L97.909 is a billable ICD-10 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 during the fiscal year 2023 from October 01, 2022 through September 30, 2023 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions.
Unspecified diagnosis codes like L97.909 are acceptable when clinical information is unknown or not available about a particular condition. Although a more specific code is preferable, unspecified codes should be used when such codes most accurately reflect what is known about a patient's condition. Specific diagnosis codes should not be used if not supported by the patient's medical record.
Approximate 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
- 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 limb 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
- Varicose ulcer of lower extremity
- 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
Index to Diseases and Injuries References
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 this diagnosis code are found in the injuries and diseases index:
Code Edits
The Medicare Code Editor (MCE) detects and reports errors in the coding of claims data. The following ICD-10 Code Edits are applicable to this code:
- Unspecified codes - Unspecified codes exist in the ICD-10-CM classification for circumstances when documentation in the medical record does not provide the level of detail needed to support reporting a more specific code. However, in the inpatient setting, there should generally be very limited and rare circumstances for which the laterality (right, left, bilateral) of a condition is unable to be documented and reported. The following pages contain the list of unspecified ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes for which there is a more specific code to identify laterality (right, left, bilateral) within that code family.
Convert to ICD-9 Code
| Source ICD-10 Code | Target ICD-9 Code | |
|---|---|---|
| L97.909 | 707.10 - Ulcer of lower limb NOS | |
| Approximate Flag - The approximate mapping means there is not an exact match between the ICD-10 and ICD-9 codes and the mapped code is not a precise representation of the original code. | ||
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Code History
- FY 2023 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2022 through 9/30/2023
- FY 2022 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2021 through 9/30/2022
- FY 2021 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2020 through 9/30/2021
- FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020
- FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
- FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
- FY 2017 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2016 through 9/30/2017
- FY 2016 - New Code, effective from 10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016 (First year ICD-10-CM implemented into the HIPAA code set)
