Pressure ulcer of sacral region
Non-billable header
L89.15 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Pressure ulcer of coccyx
- Pressure ulcer of tailbone
Includes (from L89)
- bed sore
- decubitus ulcer
- plaster ulcer
- pressure area
- pressure sore
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from L89)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from L89)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from L89)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from L89)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from L89)
- lipomelanotic reticulosis (I89.8) (from L89)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from L89)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from L89)
- systemic connective tissue disorders (M30-M36) (from L89)
- viral warts (B07.-) (from L89)
- decubitus (trophic) ulcer of cervix (uteri) (N86) (from L89)
- diabetic ulcers (E08.621, E08.622, E09.621, E09.622, E10.621, E10.622, E11.621, E11.622, E13.621, E13.622) (from L89)
- non-pressure chronic ulcer of skin (L97.-) (from L89)
- skin infections (L00-L08) (from L89)
- varicose ulcer (I83.0, I83.2) (from L89)
Code first
Sequence the underlying condition first.
Also known as
- Pressure ulcer of coccyx
- Pressure ulcer of tailbone
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative, pressure, coccyx
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative, pressure, sacral region
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative, pressure, stage 1, coccyx
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative, pressure, stage 1, sacral region
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative, pressure, stage 2, coccyx
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative, pressure, stage 2, sacral region
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative, pressure, stage 3, coccyx
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative, pressure, stage 3, sacral region
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative, pressure, stage 4, coccyx
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative, pressure, stage 4, sacral region
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative, pressure, unspecified stage, coccyx
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative, pressure, unspecified stage, sacral region
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative, pressure, unstageable, coccyx
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative, pressure, unstageable, sacral region
Parent code
- L89.1Pressure ulcer of backHeader
More specific codes L89.15
- L89.150Pressure ulcer of sacral region, unstageableBillable
- L89.151Pressure ulcer of sacral region, stage 1Billable
- L89.152Pressure ulcer of sacral region, stage 2Billable
- L89.153Pressure ulcer of sacral region, stage 3Billable
- L89.154Pressure ulcer of sacral region, stage 4Billable
- L89.156Pressure-induced deep tissue damage of sacral regionBillable
- L89.159Pressure ulcer of sacral region, unspecified stageBillable