Other specified disorders of pigmentation
Billable / specific
L81.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Iron pigmentation
- Tattoo pigmentation
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from L81)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from L81)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from L81)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from L81)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from L81)
- lipomelanotic reticulosis (I89.8) (from L81)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from L81)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from L81)
- systemic connective tissue disorders (M30-M36) (from L81)
- viral warts (B07.-) (from L81)
- nevus - see Alphabetical Index (from L81)
Also known as
- Iron pigmentation
- Tattoo pigmentation
- Arsenical pigmentation
- Disorder, pigmentation, iron
- Disorder, pigmentation, specified NEC
- Mark, tattoo
- Metal, pigmentation
- Pigmentation, iron
- Pigmentation, metals
- Pigmentation, tattoo
- Tattoo
Parent code
- L81Other disorders of pigmentationHeader
Related codes
- L81.0Postinflammatory hyperpigmentationBillable
- L81.1ChloasmaBillable
- L81.2FrecklesBillable
- L81.3Cafe au lait spotsBillable
- L81.4Other melanin hyperpigmentationBillable
- L81.5Leukoderma, not elsewhere classifiedBillable
- L81.6Other disorders of diminished melanin formationBillable
- L81.7Pigmented purpuric dermatosisBillable
- L81.9Disorder of pigmentation, unspecifiedBillable