Urticaria
Non-billable header
L50 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
- Lyme disease (A69.2-)
- rosacea (L71.-)
- allergic contact dermatitis (L23.-)
- angioneurotic edema (T78.3)
- giant urticaria (T78.3)
- hereditary angio-edema (D84.1)
- Quincke's edema (T78.3)
- serum urticaria (T80.6-)
- solar urticaria (L56.3)
- urticaria neonatorum (P83.8)
- urticaria papulosa (L28.2)
- urticaria pigmentosa (D47.01)
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- lipomelanotic reticulosis (I89.8)
- neoplasms (C00-D49)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
- systemic connective tissue disorders (M30-M36)
- viral warts (B07.-)
More specific codes L50
- L50.0Allergic urticariaBillable
- L50.1Idiopathic urticariaBillable
- L50.2Urticaria due to cold and heatBillable
- L50.3Dermatographic urticariaBillable
- L50.4Vibratory urticariaBillable
- L50.5Cholinergic urticariaBillable
- L50.6Contact urticariaBillable
- L50.8Other urticariaBillable
- L50.9Urticaria, unspecifiedBillable