ICD-10-CM code · FY2027
K13.5 Oral submucous fibrosis
BillableValid for claims as a specific diagnosis code
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Coding notes for K13.5
Applicable to Other names for conditions reported with this code.
- Submucous fibrosis of tongue
Also applies, from K13 Other diseases of lip and oral mucosa
Includes Conditions this code covers.
- epithelial disturbances of tongue
Excludes2 Not part of this condition, but a patient can have both: report both codes when both apply.
Use additional code Add a second code for the detail named here.
- code to identify:
- alcohol abuse and dependence (F10.-)
- exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22)
- exposure to tobacco smoke in the perinatal period (P96.81)
- history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891)
- occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31)
- tobacco dependence (F17.-)
- tobacco use (Z72.0)
Chapter 11 notes (apply to every code in it)
Excludes2 Not part of this condition, but a patient can have both: report both codes when both apply.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
- neoplasms (C00-D49)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
Related codes in K13
- K13.0 Diseases of lipsBillable
- K13.1 Cheek and lip bitingBillable
- K13.2 Leukoplakia and other disturbances of oral epithelium, including tongueHeader
- K13.3 Hairy leukoplakiaBillable
- K13.4 Granuloma and granuloma-like lesions of oral mucosaBillable
- K13.6 Irritative hyperplasia of oral mucosaBillable
- K13.7 Other and unspecified lesions of oral mucosaHeader
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