L76.8Other intraoperative and postprocedural complications of skin and subcutaneous tissue

L76.8 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for other intraoperative and postprocedural complications of skin and subcutaneous tissue. It belongs to category L76 (intraoperative and postprocedural complications of skin and subcutaneous tissue), block L76 (intraoperative and postprocedural complications of 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 L76, choose L76.8 (Other intraoperative and postprocedural complications of skin and subcutaneous tissue) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma of skin and subcutaneous tissue complicating a procedure (L76.0), accidental puncture and laceration of skin and subcutaneous tissue during a procedure (L76.1), postprocedural hemorrhage of skin and subcutaneous tissue following a procedure (L76.2) and postprocedural hematoma and seroma of skin and subcutaneous tissue following a procedure (L76.3).

To report this condition, pick the subcode that matches the documentation: L76.81 (tissue) and L76.82 (tissue).

Use an additional code, if applicable, to further specify disorder.

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