L98.7
Excessive and redundant skin and subcutaneous tissue
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 13 never code together
L98.7code
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 3
L98.7code
Inclusion terms
- Loose or sagging skin following bariatric surgery weight loss
- Loose or sagging skin following dietary weight loss
- Loose or sagging skin, NOS
Index entries leading here 4
- Excess, excessive, excessively
- Redundant, redundancy
- Loose — see also condition
- skin and subcutaneous tissue (following bariatric surgery weight loss) (following dietary weight loss) L98.7
- Sagging
- skin and subcutaneous tissue (following bariatric surgery weight loss) (following dietary weight loss) L98.7
Alongside this code 10 same parent — L98
L98.0 Pyogenic granuloma L98.1 Factitial dermatitis L98.2 Febrile neutrophilic dermatosis [Sweet] L98.3 Eosinophilic cellulitis [Wells] L98.4 Non-pressure chronic ulcer of skin, not elsewhere classified category L98.A Non-pressure chronic ulcer of upper limb, NEC category L98.5 Mucinosis of the skin L98.6 Oth infiltrative disorders of the skin, subcu L98.8 Oth disrd of the skin and subcutaneous tissue L98.9 Disorder of the skin and subcutaneous tissue, unspecified
Medications 2
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