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L08.81

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Pyoderma vegetans

This code does not map to an HCC category in any model (V28, V24, ESRD, RxHCC).

What This Code Means

A progressive bacterial skin infection with vegetating (wart-like or cauliflower-like) growths, typically in skin folds.

Coding Tips

  • •This is a variant of pyoderma with distinctive vegetating appearance
  • •Document the extent and location of vegetating lesions for treatment planning

Excludes 1 — Do NOT code together

  • pyoderma gangrenosum (L88)
  • pyoderma NOS (L08.0)

Code Hierarchy

└L08Other local infections of skin and subcutaneous tissue└L08.8Other specified local infections of the skin and subcutaneous tissue└L08.81Pyoderma vegetans
└L08.81Pyoderma vegetans

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