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L88

Pyoderma gangrenosum

Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 11 never code together
L88code
Excludes1
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.-

Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.

Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.

Instructional notes 1
L88code
Inclusion terms
  • Phagedenic pyoderma
Index entries leading here 2
  • Pyoderma, pyodermia L08.0
    • gangrenosum L88
    • phagedenic L88
  • Phagedena (dry) (moist) (sloughing) — see also Gangrene
    • geometric L88
Medications 1

MED-RT files conditions by MeSH, which carves the world differently from ICD-10. These are name matches on this code's description, offered as candidates — not as an assertion that they are this code.

Additional references
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Risk adjustment

CMS28HCC387 RX08HCC314

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This code

Billable
yes
Code set
FY2026
Block
L80-L99

Present FY2024–FY2027.