L03.1Cellulitis and acute lymphangitis of other parts of limb

L03.1 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for cellulitis and acute lymphangitis of other parts of limb. It belongs to category L03 (cellulitis and acute lymphangitis), block L00-L08 (infections of the skin and subcutaneous tissue) and chapter 12 (diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue). It is a header code, so it can't be reported by itself; one of its 2 subcodes must be used instead.

Within L03, choose L03.1 (of other parts of limb) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: of finger and toe (L03.0), of face and neck (L03.2), of trunk (L03.3), of other sites (L03.8) and unspecified (L03.9).

To report this condition, pick the subcode that matches the documentation: L03.11 (limb) and L03.12 (limb).

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