Other intraoperative and postprocedural complications of skin and subcutaneous tissue
Non-billable header
L76.8 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from L76)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from L76)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from L76)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from L76)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from L76)
- lipomelanotic reticulosis (I89.8) (from L76)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from L76)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from L76)
- systemic connective tissue disorders (M30-M36) (from L76)
- viral warts (B07.-) (from L76)
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Add a code to identify the following, if applicable.
- code, if applicable, to further specify disorder
Parent code
- L76Intraoperative and postprocedural complications of skin and subcutaneous tissueHeader
More specific codes L76.8
Related codes
- L76.0Intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma of skin and subcutaneous tissue complicating a procedureHeader
- L76.1Accidental puncture and laceration of skin and subcutaneous tissue during a procedureHeader
- L76.2Postprocedural hemorrhage of skin and subcutaneous tissue following a procedureHeader
- L76.3Postprocedural hematoma and seroma of skin and subcutaneous tissue following a procedureHeader