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Diagnosis Code

R23.4 CHANGES IN SKIN TEXTURE


Code Information

Diagnosis Code: R23.4

Short Description: Changes in skin texture

Long Description: Changes in skin texture

The code R23.4 is VALID for claim submission

Code Classification:

  • Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00–R99)
    • Symptoms and signs involving the skin and subcutaneous tissue (R20-R23)
      • Other skin changes (R23)
        • R23.4 Changes in skin texture

Code Version: 2022 ICD-10-CM


Synonyms

  • Abnormal keratinization
  • Changes in skin texture
  • Circumoral rhytides
  • Crow's feet
  • Crust on skin
  • Decreased keratinization
  • Decreased thickness of skin
  • Desquamation of skin following febrile illness
  • Desquamation secondary to acute systemic illness
  • Diffuse palmoplantar keratoderma with painful fissures
  • Epidermal collarette
  • Fatty dimpling of skin
  • Finding of integrity of skin
  • Finding of integrity of skin
  • Fine wrinkles on face
  • Fissure in skin
  • Fissure in skin of bilateral feet
  • Fissure in skin of bilateral hands
  • Increased keratinization
  • Increased thickness of skin
  • Induration of periwound skin
  • Induration of skin
  • Injection site induration
  • Painful fissure of dorsolateral aspect of skin of fingertip
  • Parakeratosis of skin
  • Parakeratosis scutularis
  • Peeling of skin
  • Rhytide of forehead
  • Rhytide of glabellar skin
  • Rough skin
  • Rough skin of hands
  • Scaling of female perineum
  • Scaly scalp
  • Scaly skin
  • Skin dimple
  • Skin eschar
  • Skin peeling disorder
  • Skin peeling disorder
  • Skin peeling disorder
  • Subcutaneous crepitus
  • Texture of skin or mucosa
  • Thick skin
  • Thickening of skin
  • Thickness of skin - finding
  • Thickness of skin - finding
  • Thickness of skin - finding
  • Thin skin
  • Woody induration of skin and subcutis
  • Wrinkled face
  • Wrinkled skin

Diagnostic Related Group(s)

The code R23.4 is grouped in the following Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v39.0)
  • Minor Skin Disorders With Mcc (606)
  • Minor Skin Disorders Without Mcc (607)

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code R23.4 has the following ICD-10-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries
  • Inclusion Terms:
    • Desquamation of skin
    • Induration of skin
    • Scaling of skin
  • Type 1 Excludes Notes:
    • epidermal thickening NOS (@L85.9*)

Crosswalk Information

ICD-10 Code ICD-9 Code ICD-9 Description
R23.4 Right Arrow 782.8 Changes in skin texture

This ICD-10 to ICD-9 data is based on the 2018 General Equivalency Mapping (GEM) files published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for informational purposes only. The data is not an ICD-10 conversion tool and doesn’t guarantee clinical accuracy.

Similar Codes

ICD-10 Code ICD-10 Description
R23 Other skin changes
R23.0 Cyanosis
R23.1 Pallor
R23.2 Flushing
R23.3 Spontaneous ecchymoses
R23.8 Other skin changes
R23.9 Unspecified skin changes

This page was last updated on: 10/1/2023

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