L90.5 Scar conditions and fibrosis of skin

Billable ICD-10-CM code, FY2026.

Applicable to

• Adherent scar (skin)
• Cicatrix
• Disfigurement of skin due to scar
• Fibrosis of skin NOS
• Scar NOS

Excludes2 (not included here)

• hypertrophic scar (L91.0)
• keloid scar (L91.0)

MS-DRG index

Defines the logic of DRG(s) 606-607 in MDC 09.

Approximate ICD-9-CM (GEMs)

• 709.2 Scar conditions and fibrosis of skin

Code annotations containing back-references to L90.5

Back-references to L90.5

• Type 2 Excludes: L91.0 Hypertrophic scar ("scar NOS (L90.5)")

Diagnosis Index entries for L90.5

• Adherent › scar (skin)
• Adherent › tendon in scar
• Atrophy, atrophic (of) › scar
• Cicatrix (adherent) (contracted) (painful) (vicious)
• Cicatrix (adherent) (contracted) (painful) (vicious) › skin
• Cicatrix (adherent) (contracted) (painful) (vicious) › skin › postinfective
• Cicatrix (adherent) (contracted) (painful) (vicious) › specified site NEC
• Cicatrix (adherent) (contracted) (painful) (vicious) › wrist, constricting (annular)
• Disfigurement (due to scar)
• Fibrosis, fibrotic › skin
• Painful › scar NEC
• Scar, scarring
• Scar, scarring › adherent
• Scar, scarring › atrophic
• Scar, scarring › painful

Nearby codes

• L90.0 Lichen sclerosus et atrophicus
• L90.1 Anetoderma of Schweninger-Buzzi
• L90.2 Anetoderma of Jadassohn-Pellizzari
• L90.3 Atrophoderma of Pasini and Pierini
• L90.4 Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans
• L90.5 Scar conditions and fibrosis of skin (this code)
• L90.6 Striae atrophicae
• L90.8 Other atrophic disorders of skin
• L90.9 Atrophic disorder of skin, unspecified