L56.8
Other specified acute skin changes due to ultraviolet radiation
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 10 never code together
L00-L99chapter
Excludes2
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)P04-P96
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)A00-B99
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)O00-O9A
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)Q00-Q99
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)E00-E88
- lipomelanotic reticulosis (I89.8)I89.8
- neoplasms (C00-D49)C00-D49
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)R00-R94
- systemic connective tissue disorders (M30-M36)M30-M36
- viral warts (B07.-)B07.-
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 1
Index entries leading here 7
- Cheilitis (acute) (angular) (catarrhal) (chronic) (exfoliative) (gangrenous) (glandular) (infectional) (suppurative) (ulcerative) (vesicular) K13.0
- actinic (due to sun) L56.8
- Dermatitis (eczematous) L30.9
- Effect, adverse
- Change (s) (in) (of) — see also Removal
- Sunburn L55.9
- Photodermatitis (sun) L56.8
- due to drug L56.8
- Photosensitivity, photosensitization (sun) skin L56.8
Alongside this code 7 same parent — L56
Additional references
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