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L57.8

Other skin changes due to chronic exposure to nonionizing 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 4
L57code
Use additional code
  • code to identify the source of the ultraviolet radiation (W89), or other nonionizing radiation (W90)W89W90
L57.8code
Inclusion terms
  • Farmer's skin
  • Sailor's skin
  • Solar dermatitis
Index entries leading here 13
  • Dermatitis (eczematous) L30.9
    • actinic (due to sun) L57.8
    • due to
      • ultraviolet rays (sun NEC) (chronic exposure) L57.8
      • light (sun) NEC L57.8
      • radiation L59.8
        • nonionizing (chronic exposure) L57.8
        • sun NEC L57.8
      • sunshine NEC L57.8
    • solare L57.8
    • ultraviolet (sun) (chronic exposure) L57.8
  • Elastosis
  • Atrophia — see also Atrophy
    • cutis senilis L90.8
    • senilis R54
      • dermatological L90.8
        • due to radiation (nonionizing) (solar) L57.8
  • Atrophoderma, atrophodermia (of) L90.9
    • senile L90.8
      • due to radiation (nonionizing) (solar) L57.8
  • Atrophy, atrophic (of)
    • skin (patches) (spots) L90.9
      • due to radiation (nonionizing) (solar) L57.8
    • senile R54
      • due to radiation (nonionizing) (solar) L57.8
  • Change (s) (in) (of) — see also Removal
    • skin R23.9
      • chronic, due to nonionizing radiation L57.9
  • Photodermatitis (sun) L56.8
  • Sunburn L55.9
  • Milium L72.0
  • Dermoid (cyst) — see also Neoplasm, benign, by site
    • due to radiation (nonionizing) L57.8
  • Farmer's
  • Sailors' skin L57.8
  • Weather, weathered
Alongside this code 7 same parent — L57
Additional references
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Official coding advice for this code. Published by the American Hospital Association. Not included in this installation.

Risk adjustment

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This code

Billable
yes
Code set
FY2026
Parent
L57
Block
L55-L59
Siblings
7

Present FY2024–FY2027.