2015 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 704.8
Other specified diseases of hair and hair follicles
- 2015
- Billable Thru Sept 30/2015
- Non-Billable On/After Oct 1/2015
- ICD-9-CM 704.8 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 704.8 should only be used for claims with a date of service on or before September 30, 2015. For claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015, use an equivalent ICD-10-CM code (or codes).
Convert to ICD-10-CM:
704.8 converts approximately to:
- 2015/16 ICD-10-CM L66.3 Perifolliculitis capitis abscedens
Or:
- 2015/16 ICD-10-CM L73.8 Other specified follicular disorders
Approximate Synonyms
- Abnormal keratinization of hair follicle
- Acne necrotica miliaris
- Acne necrotica varioliformis of scalp margin
- Acne with gram negative folliculitis
- Actinic folliculitis
- Acute folliculitis
- Agminate folliculitis
- Bacterial folliculitis
- BIDS brittle hair-impaired intellect-decreased fertility-short stature syndrome
- Bockhart impetigo
- Chronic folliculitis
- Chronic folliculitis of legs
- Collarettes of lash follicles
- Crandall's syndrome
- Deep bacterial folliculitis
- Demodex folliculitis
- Disseminate infundibulo-folliculitis
- Disturbance of hair cycle
- Eosinophilic folliculitis
- Eosinophilic pustular folliculitis
- Erythromelanosis follicularis of face AND/OR neck
- Exclamation point hair
- Follicular plugging
- Folliculitis
- Folliculitis nares perforans
- Folliculitis of lids
- Gram-negative folliculitis
- Greasy hair
- Hair cast
- Hair sinus
- Hair sinus in foot
- Hairs broken close to the skin
- Increased hair growth
- Ingrown hair
- Lanugo
- Loose anagen hair syndrome
- Lupoid sycosis
- Lupoid sycosis of beard
- Malassezia folliculitis
- Matted hair
- Milker's sinus
- Multiple fibrofolliculomas
- Neonatal eosinophilic pustular folliculitis
- Nodular folliculitis
- On examination - follicular pustules
- Perforating folliculitis
- Perifolliculitis
- Perifolliculitis capitis
- Perifolliculitis capitis abscedens
- Perifolliculitis capitis abscedens et suffodiens
- Pili incarnati
- Pili multigemini
- Propionibacterium acnes folliculitis
- Pruritic folliculitis of pregnancy
- Pseudofolliculitis
- Pseudofolliculitis barbae
- Pseudofolliculitis colli
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa folliculitis
- Pustular folliculitis
- Reactive follicular hyperplasia in the elderly
- Scalp folliculitis
- Sheepshearer's hair sinus
- Short anagen syndrome
- Staphylococcal folliculitis of scalp
- Superficial folliculitis
- Sycosis
- Sycosis barbae
- Sycosis cruris
- Symmetrical circumscribed allotrichia
- Trichomalacia
- Trichostasis spinulosa
- Tufted folliculitis
- Whirlpool folliculitis
- White forelock
Applies To
- Folliculitis:
- NOS
- abscedens et suffodiens
- pustular
- Perifolliculitis:
- NOS
- capitis abscedens et suffodiens
- scalp
- Sycosis:
- NOS
- barbae [not parasitic]
- lupoid
- vulgaris