Scar conditions and fibrosis of skin
Billable / specific
L90.5 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
- Adherent scar (skin)
- Cicatrix
- Disfigurement of skin due to scar
- Fibrosis of skin NOS
- Scar NOS
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- hypertrophic scar (L91.0)
- keloid scar (L91.0)
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from L90)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from L90)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from L90)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from L90)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from L90)
- lipomelanotic reticulosis (I89.8) (from L90)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from L90)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from L90)
- systemic connective tissue disorders (M30-M36) (from L90)
- viral warts (B07.-) (from L90)
Also known as
- Adherent scar (skin)
- Cicatrix
- Disfigurement of skin due to scar
- Fibrosis of skin NOS
- Scar NOS
- Adherent, scar
- Adherent, tendon in scar
- Atrophy, atrophic, scar
- Cicatrix, skin
- Cicatrix, skin, postinfective
- Cicatrix, specified site NEC
- Cicatrix, wrist, constricting
- Disfigurement
- Fibrosis, fibrotic, skin
- Painful, scar NEC
- Scar, scarring
- Scar, scarring, adherent
- Scar, scarring, atrophic
- Scar, scarring, painful
Parent code
- L90Atrophic disorders of skinHeader
Related codes
- L90.0Lichen sclerosus et atrophicusBillable
- L90.1Anetoderma of Schweninger-BuzziBillable
- L90.2Anetoderma of Jadassohn-PellizzariBillable
- L90.3Atrophoderma of Pasini and PieriniBillable
- L90.4Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicansBillable
- L90.6Striae atrophicaeBillable
- L90.8Other atrophic disorders of skinBillable
- L90.9Atrophic disorder of skin, unspecifiedBillable