E08.62Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with skin complications

E08.62 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with skin complications. It belongs to category E08 (diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition), block E08-E13 (diabetes mellitus) and chapter 4 (endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases). It is a header code, so it can't be reported by itself; one of its 4 subcodes must be used instead.

Within E08.6 (diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with other specified complications), E08.62 is specifically for diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with skin complications. Related codes cover diabetic arthropathy (E08.61), oral complications (E08.63), hypoglycemia (E08.64), hyperglycemia (E08.65) and other specified complication (E08.69).

To report this condition, pick the subcode that matches the documentation: E08.620 (dermatitis), E08.621 (ulcer), E08.622 (ulcer) and E08.628 (complications).

Code first the underlying condition, such as: congenital rubella (P35.0), Cushing's syndrome (E24.-), cystic fibrosis (E84.-), malignant neoplasm (C00-C96) and 2 more.

Use an additional code to identify control using: injectable non-insulin antidiabetic drugs (Z79.85), insulin (Z79.4), oral antidiabetic drugs (Z79.84) and oral hypoglycemic drugs (Z79.84).

It has been part of ICD-10-CM since the code set took effect on October 1, 2015 and hasn't changed since.