Xerosis cutis
Billable / specific
L85.3 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
- Dry skin dermatitis
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from L85)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from L85)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from L85)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from L85)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from L85)
- lipomelanotic reticulosis (I89.8) (from L85)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from L85)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from L85)
- systemic connective tissue disorders (M30-M36) (from L85)
- viral warts (B07.-) (from L85)
- hypertrophic disorders of the skin (L91.-) (from L85)
Also known as
- Dry skin dermatitis
- Asteatosis cutis
- Dermatitis, dry skin
- Skin, dry
- Xerosis, cutis
- Xerosis, skin
Parent code
- L85Other epidermal thickeningHeader